Re: 2.6.6-rc3: modular DVB tda1004x broken

[Stephen Smalley]

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 17:54, viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
> 	f) potentially racy flush_unauthorized_files() in selinux code - uses
> sys_close() in a strange way.

The SELinux flush_unauthorized_files code is based on flush_old_files in
fs/exec.c.  It is only executed upon a SID/context transition to flush
files that are not authorized for the new SID/context, and sharing of
the open file table across such transitions requires a share permission
that is only allowed where absolutely necessary, e.g. kernel->init.  Do
we need to change the code?

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
National Security Agency

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