Re: [RFC PATCH] fanotify, inotify, dnotify, security: add security hook for fs notifications

From: Casey Schaufler
Date: Wed Jul 10 2019 - 12:55:58 EST


On 7/10/2019 9:49 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 7/10/19 9:38 AM, Casey Schaufler wrote:
>> On 7/10/2019 6:34 AM, Aaron Goidel wrote:
>>> @@ -3261,6 +3262,26 @@ static int selinux_inode_removexattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name)
>>> return -EACCES;
>>> }
>>>
>>> +static int selinux_inode_notify(struct inode *inode, u64 mask)
>>> +{
>>> + u32 perm = FILE__WATCH; // basic permission, can a watch be set?
>> We don't use // comments in the Linux kernel.
>>
> I thought that we had recently moved into the 21st century on that issue,
> but I don't see it mentioned in coding-style.rst. Maybe we need a Doc update.

Really? Yuck. Next thing you know M4 macros will be allowed.

>
> checkpatch allows C99 comments by default.
> Joe, do you recall about this?
>
> thanks.