Re: [RFC PATCH v9 0/3] Add introspect_access(2) (was O_MAYEXEC)

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Sep 10 2020 - 14:42:25 EST


On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 08:38:21PM +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> There is also the use case of noexec mounts and file permissions. From
> user space point of view, it doesn't matter which kernel component is in
> charge of defining the policy. The syscall should then not be tied with
> a verification/integrity/signature/appraisal vocabulary, but simply an
> access control one.

permission()?