Re: [PATCH] Security/sysfs: Enable security xattrs to be set onsysfs files, directories, and symlinks.

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 01:26:44PM -0400, David P. Quigley wrote:
> I just read over Casey's comments again and I'm pretty sure we have a
> big misunderstanding here. From his initial response it seems that he
> thinks that I am exposing the secids to userspace as the way for setting
> the labels on files. That isn't true. We are still using the full string
> based labels for the userspace interface what the secid is used for is
> to allow the kernel to keep track of changes until the sysfs_dirent is
> destroyed. 

Ok, if Casey and others agree that this is the best solution, I'll take
it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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