Re: [RFC] lsm: namespace hooks

From: Lukasz Pawelczyk
Date: Tue Dec 02 2014 - 07:43:26 EST


On czw, 2014-11-27 at 18:38 +0100, Lukasz Pawelczyk wrote:
> Right now the major issue I see is that LSM by itself is not defined how
> it's going to behave. It's up to a specific LSM module.
>
> E.g. within the Smack namespace filling the map is a privileged
> operation. So by tying them up you cripple the ability to create a fully
> working user namespace as an unprivileged process.

Entertaining the idea that LSM namespace would be tied to user namespace
(as you suggested) how do you see the limitation I described above?


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Lukasz Pawelczyk
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics



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