Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762940AbXK2SzL (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:55:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758399AbXK2Sy5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:54:57 -0500 Received: from bbasa1.bakbone.com ([209.126.247.190]:62723 "EHLO mail.bakbone.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758105AbXK2Sy5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:54:57 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1995 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:54:56 EST From: Justin Banks Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:19:57 -0700 To: Ray Lee Cc: Greg KH , Jan Engelhardt , 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: <20071129181957.GA5575@bleen.corp.bb> References: <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> <2c0942db0711291003h45177f3cr5496cf30bdb01996@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0711291003h45177f3cr5496cf30bdb01996@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1216 Lines: 30 Ray Lee wrote > 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. Or NFS servers for that matter, either. -justinb -- Justin Banks BakBone Software justinb@bakbone.com - 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/