Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763125AbXK2REj (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762790AbXK2REX (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:23 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:34214 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762714AbXK2REW (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:03:26 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Jon Masters , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Christoph Hellwig , Al Viro , Casey Schaufler , "Tvrtko A. Ursulin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Out of tree module using LSM Message-ID: <20071129170326.GA10024@kroah.com> References: <416908.77038.qm@web36613.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20071128164613.GA21815@infradead.org> <25290.1196273705@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20071128183040.GW8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20071129003840.GA22530@kroah.com> <20071129010753.GA19106@kroah.com> <1196354172.6473.52.camel@perihelion> <20071129164746.GB9664@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1354 Lines: 33 On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 05:53:33PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > 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. Again, these are not things that these companies care about. Please, let's stop arguing about this, until someone actually produces some code they want to see help resolve this "issue". thanks, greg k-h - 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/