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

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Mon Jun 02 2008 - 07:36:26 EST


> > I maintain, that moving lsm hooks into callers is insane. And that's
> > *the* sanest alternative that anybody has been able to come up with to
> > passing down vfsmounts into the vfs.
>
> Not so. I showed how pathname-based security could be done *without*
> passing vfsmounts down at all. Unfortunately, you weren't interested.

Umm, not sure what you are referring to. Could you please give a
pointer? I'm sure the apparmor developers would be more than
interested in such a scheme, if it does indeed work.

Thanks,
Miklos
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