Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763445AbXK2RwV (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:52:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761261AbXK2RwI (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:52:08 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:37933 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761132AbXK2RwH (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:52:07 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:51:55 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Ray Lee Cc: Greg KH , Jan Engelhardt , Jon Masters , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Christoph Hellwig , Casey Schaufler , "Tvrtko A. Ursulin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Out of tree module using LSM Message-ID: <20071129175155.GY8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <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> <20071129170326.GA10024@kroah.com> <2c0942db0711290935l56d28b70v2b35dfb1663e4d2b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0711290935l56d28b70v2b35dfb1663e4d2b@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 870 Lines: 17 On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 09:35:56AM -0800, Ray Lee wrote: > Perhaps if you looked at this outside of a file-server scenario, the > problem would be clearer? Anti-malware companies want to check > anything written to disk on a system, either at write time or blocking > the open/mmap. That means proactively protecting email programs with > known vulnerabilities that have yet to be patched, web browsers > writing and reading their caches, an Apache instance running WebDAV, > the list goes on. And these are on desktop systems, with no attached > file/network server. ... and anything promising that is a grade-A snake oil. - 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/