Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763551AbXK2SDZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:03:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761575AbXK2SDO (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:03:14 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]:24220 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761574AbXK2SDN (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:03:13 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=Q9E5Sm+M1wK0LwaiZ3jau64uOuJs7t/S6YqOQu4I302YjJQdCtMQqJHTtSW+hCNbJ7IHQHOqqQSlxy9ydyf3wEXr7/69gzvr50QZBm5NaScnAETRvy5DoTf5kh2JrQPldH05rrywObAJzaOGFqDGjbzqWN+PTNk0Bwk1sRgknik= Message-ID: <2c0942db0711291003h45177f3cr5496cf30bdb01996@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:03:09 -0800 From: "Ray Lee" To: "Greg KH" Subject: Re: Out of tree module using LSM Cc: "Jan Engelhardt" , "Jon Masters" , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, "Christoph Hellwig" , "Al Viro" , "Casey Schaufler" , "Tvrtko A. Ursulin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20071129174528.GA14431@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <25290.1196273705@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <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> <20071129174528.GA14431@kroah.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 677ae7423a8bdbb5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1119 Lines: 22 On Nov 29, 2007 9:45 AM, Greg KH 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. > > Ok, if they want to check on every open/mmap then just hook in glibc to > do this. Especially as they want to run userspace code at this point in > time. Doesn't help statically linked binaries, or anything else that bypases glibc. But yes, I'll let them argue their point from here. - 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/