Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756741AbXEQMvr (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 08:51:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754757AbXEQMvj (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 08:51:39 -0400 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:37044 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754082AbXEQMvi (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 08:51:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 07:51:31 -0500 From: "Serge E. Hallyn" To: Suparna Bhattacharya Cc: Pavel Machek , 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: <20070517125131.GA23067@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> References: <20070508191548.GA29913@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> <20070508130517.ecef3dcb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070514200011.GB3969@ucw.cz> <20070517055747.GA15474@in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070517055747.GA15474@in.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1240 Lines: 33 Quoting Suparna Bhattacharya (suparna@in.ibm.com): > 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. Sorry, I did but I guess I didn't cc: you on that reply. It is at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/14/276 thanks, -serge - 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/