Re: mmap_min_addr and your local LSM (ok, just SELinux)

[James Morris]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, James Carter wrote:

> Agreed.  That guarantee has been stated from the very beginning for
> SELinux; we shouldn't move away from it.  Are there other places where
> having an LSM weakens security by default?

There's a similar form of hook in vm_enough_memory, but the SELinux module 
calls the DAC capability check first, so it seems ok from a policy 
writer's point of view (i.e. worst case is they revert to DAC).



- James
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