Re: [PATCH 2/2] Default hooks protecting the XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIXnamespace

From: Andreas Gruenbacher
Date: Fri Jan 16 2004 - 18:38:52 EST


Hello Chris,

the patch looks fine to me. Thank you all for reacting so quickly.

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 22:20, Chris Wright wrote:
> Add default hooks for both the dummy and capability code to protect the
> XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX namespace. These EAs were fully accessible to
> unauthorized users, so a user that rebooted from an SELinux kernel to a
> default kernel would leave those critical EAs unprotected.

Regards,
--
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX AG

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