Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759855AbXEQF42 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 01:56:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756866AbXEQF4U (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 01:56:20 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:48437 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756627AbXEQF4S (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 01:56:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 11:27:47 +0530 From: Suparna Bhattacharya To: Pavel Machek Cc: Andrew Morton , "Serge E. Hallyn" , lkml , linux-fsdevel , James Morris , Stephen Smalley , jeffschroeder@computer.org, Chris Wright , Karl MacMillan , KaiGai Kohei Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] file capabilities: Introduction Message-ID: <20070517055747.GA15474@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: suparna@in.ibm.com References: <20070508191548.GA29913@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> <20070508130517.ecef3dcb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070514200011.GB3969@ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070514200011.GB3969@ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1508 Lines: 44 On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:00:11PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > "Serge E. Hallyn" wrote: > > > > > Following are two patches which have been sitting for some time in -mm. > > > > Where "some time" == "nearly six months". > > > > We need help considering, reviewing and testing this code, please. > > I did quick scan, and it looks ok. Plus, it means we can finally start > using that old capabilities subsystem... so I think we should do it. FWIW, I looked through it recently as well, and it looked reasonable enough to me, though I'm not a security expert. I did have a question about testing corner cases etc, which Serge has tried to address. Serge, are you planning to post an update without STRICTXATTR ? That should simplify the second patch. Regards Suparna > > Pavel > -- > (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek > (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Suparna Bhattacharya (suparna@in.ibm.com) Linux Technology Center IBM Software Lab, India - 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/