Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750733AbWKBUkO (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 15:40:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751036AbWKBUkO (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 15:40:14 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:42913 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750733AbWKBUkM (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 15:40:12 -0500 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <1162496968.6071.38.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> References: <1162496968.6071.38.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1162402218.32614.230.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> <1162387735.32614.184.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> <16969.1161771256@redhat.com> <31035.1162330008@redhat.com> <4417.1162395294@redhat.com> <25037.1162487801@redhat.com> To: Trond Myklebust Cc: David Howells , Stephen Smalley , Karl MacMillan , jmorris@namei.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aviro@redhat.com Subject: Re: Security issues with local filesystem caching X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.0.50 Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:38:37 +0000 Message-ID: <32754.1162499917@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 779 Lines: 21 Trond Myklebust wrote: > Just why are you doing all this? Why do we need a back-end that requires > all this extra client-side security infrastructure in order to work? Well, both Christoph and Al are of the opinion that I should be using vfs_mkdir() and co rather than bypassing the security and calling inode ops directly. Also I should be setting security labels on the files I create. > IOW: What is wrong with the existing CacheFS? Well, you did require it to be reviewed by Christoph... David - 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/