Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752149AbYFBKEs (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2008 06:04:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756216AbYFBKEh (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2008 06:04:37 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:45476 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752391AbYFBKEg (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2008 06:04:36 -0400 From: Andreas Gruenbacher To: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [patch 01/15] security: pass path to inode_create Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:04:13 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.51 (KDE/4.0.4; ; ) Cc: Miklos Szeredi , linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, jmorris@namei.org, sds@tycho.nsa.gov, eparis@redhat.com, casey@schaufler-ca.com, jjohansen@suse.de, penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20080529134903.615127628@szeredi.hu> <20080602091341.GA8011@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20080602091341.GA8011@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline X-Length: 1771 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200806021204.16615.agruen@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 806 Lines: 20 On Monday 02 June 2008 11:13:41 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 09:02:14AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > So again, can you offer an alternative? > > Just give up on this dumb idea completely. The AppArmor guys have really gone a long way in arguing their case, and all discussions so far have ended in you decreeing that pathnames are bad at some point. Thanks a lot for your constructive input on other areas of the code, but could you please come up with technical arguments why pathnames are bad this time? Thanks a lot! Andreas -- 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/