Re: [patch 01/15] security: pass path to inode_create

From: Andreas Gruenbacher
Date: Mon Jun 02 2008 - 06:04:48 EST


On Monday 02 June 2008 11:13:41 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 09:02:14AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > So again, can you offer an alternative?
>
> Just give up on this dumb idea completely.

The AppArmor guys have really gone a long way in arguing their case, and all
discussions so far have ended in you decreeing that pathnames are bad at some
point. Thanks a lot for your constructive input on other areas of the code,
but could you please come up with technical arguments why pathnames are
bad this time?

Thanks a lot!

Andreas
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