Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/14] CacheFiles: Permit an inode's security ID to be
	obtained [try #2]
From: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
To: casey@schaufler-ca.com
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org,
       steved@redhat.com, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no,
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Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:22:04 -0400
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On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 10:07 -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> --- David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Permit an inode's security ID to be obtained by the CacheFiles module.  This
> > is
> > then used as the SID with which files and directories will be created in the
> > cache.
> 
> This is SELinux specific functionality. It should not be an LSM
> interface. 

Odd, you proposed exactly the same hook (aside from naming convention
and secid as argument vs. as retval) in recent postings on linux-audit
and selinux list for use by the audit system.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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