Re: [patch 00/11] mount ownership and unprivileged mount syscall(v9)

From: James Morris
Date: Wed Mar 19 2008 - 17:36:40 EST


On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> > We might need a user_mount hook which is called once the core kernel code
> > determines that it is a a valid unprivileged mount (although the sb_mount
> > hook will already have been called, IIUC).
>
> Does the order matter between core code's and the security module's
> permission checks?

Yes, the model is DAC before MAC.

> If it does, the cleanest would be to just move the
> core checks before the sb_mount hook, no?

Correct.

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James Morris
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