Re: [PATCH 0/5] VFS: DazukoFS, stackable-fs, file access control

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Dec 23 2008 - 13:00:37 EST


Hi!

> MOTIVATION
>
> Since 2001 various anti-virus vendors have been providing out-of-tree
> solutions for online virus scanning. Although GNU/Linux systems
> currently are not targets of virus authors, many organizations are
> interested in online virus scanning on Linux-based servers in order to
> help protect Microsoft Windows clients. It is often argued that file
> scanning should be implemented in the various services (such as Samba,
> Apache, vsftpd, etc.), and indeed many such solutions have been
> implemented. However, there is a continued demand for a kernel-based
> solution because it can guard the entire filesystem independent from
> the types and numbers of services running on a system.

Somewhere here you should mention that unlike other solutions that
work 100% of time, dazuko is be design racy and may still allow
viruses to be spread from linux system when mmap is used.
Pavel
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