Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753983AbYHLT35 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:29:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751458AbYHLT3s (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:29:48 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:37858 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750777AbYHLT3r (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:29:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:29:25 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Peter Dolding Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" , Mimi Zohar , serue@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Christoph Hellwig , James Morris , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap , safford@watson.ibm.com, sailer@watson.ibm.com, Stephen Smalley , Al Viro , Mimi Zohar Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] integrity: Linux Integrity Module(LIM) Message-ID: <20080812192925.GC18034@infradead.org> References: <20080808184349.999902616@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1218221761.4444.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080809185340.GC22905@infradead.org> <20080811170255.GA2662@us.ibm.com> <20080811195645.GA16685@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 958 Lines: 20 On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:41:16PM +1000, Peter Dolding wrote: > We really do need to get credentials patch in to common store all this > permission/secuirty data.. With a section for integrity related > entries. > > Anti-Virus Passes and fails, signed running programs support and so on. > > Lot of different things need ways of recording integrity status's. > Users also need to know if a application does not work is it TPM is it > Anti-virus is it lack of signature. Peter, please read up what the credentials patches do, or how struct cred/ucred is used in SVR4 and BSD for the last 20 years. It is useful, but it's not going to help with any of the strange thigns the AV or Integrity people are doing. -- 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/