Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261318AbVBGWp7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:45:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261296AbVBGWoR (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:44:17 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:16650 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261318AbVBGWnD (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:43:03 -0500 Message-Id: <200502072242.j17MgkGK028006@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Chris Wright Cc: Michael Halcrow , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] BSD Secure Levels: claim block dev in file struct rather than inode struct, 2.6.11-rc2-mm1 (3/8) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:26:03 PST." <20050207142603.A469@build.pdx.osdl.net> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20050207192108.GA776@halcrow.us> <20050207193129.GB834@halcrow.us> <20050207142603.A469@build.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1107816166_22594P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:42:46 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1287 Lines: 36 --==_Exmh_1107816166_22594P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:26:03 PST, Chris Wright said: > * Michael Halcrow (mhalcrow@us.ibm.com) wrote: > > This is the third in a series of eight patches to the BSD Secure > > Levels LSM. It moves the claim on the block device from the inode > > struct to the file struct in order to address a potential > > circumvention of the control via hard links to block devices. Thanks > > to Serge Hallyn for pointing this out. > > Hard links still point to same inode, what's the issue that this > addresses? Ignore that last - I thought it was the "filesystem linking permissions" thread rather than the BSD Secure linking permissions thread. ;) --==_Exmh_1107816166_22594P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFCB+7mcC3lWbTT17ARAkxWAKCp6qnCRM3pOspDyRY+29wMBEKCRgCfQ/2F 9pAMKfQ0vydzTIPGKf1w8Rg= =R3BH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1107816166_22594P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/