Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:53:33 +0100 (CET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
       Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
       "Tvrtko A. Ursulin" <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Out of tree module using LSM
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On Nov 29 2007 08:47, Greg KH wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:36:12AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:07 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>> 
>> > The easiest way is as Al described above, just have the userspace
>> > program that wrote the file to disk, check it then.
>> 
>> But the problem is that this isn't just Samba, this is a countless
>> myriad of different applications. And if one of them doesn't support
>> on-access scanning, then the whole solution isn't worth using.
>
>Ok, which specific applications do they care about?  Last time I asked
>it was still limited to a very small handful, all of which would be
>trivial to add such a hook to.
>
Well, think bash, syscalls. While you can add a plugin to samba "easily",
it seems overkill to do the same for rm, mv, cp, bash.

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