Re: [PATCH 2/5] selinux: adds a private inode operation

From: Jeff Mahoney
Date: Mon Nov 22 2004 - 14:18:41 EST


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Stephen Smalley wrote:
| On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 13:04, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
|
|>Yes, you're right. The isec->initialized check means that code never
|>gets executed.
|
|
| Ok. How about the untested diff below relative to your patch? It
| removes the unnecessary code, replaces the unused inherits flag field
| (legacy from earlier code) with a private flag field, does not set the
| SID in selinux_inode_mark_private (leaving it with the unlabeled SID,
| which will ensure that we notice it if it ever reaches a SELinux
| permission check), and modifies SELinux permission checking functions
| and post_create() to test for the private flag and skip SELinux
| processing in that case. Note that this means that reiserfs should be
| able to use the VFS helpers if desired without interference by SELinux
| when accessing these private inodes.
|

Excellent. Thanks. Preliminary testing works as expected (ie: deadlocks
don't occur, xattrs/<dir> is removed when owning file is deleted)

I've integrated the changes into my patch set. With those issues
addressed, would you feel these would be appropriate for inclusion? I
suspect you may have gotten questions as many interested parties in this
feature working as I have.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SuSE Labs
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