Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:05:09 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, "Press, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Press@ca.com>,
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       viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [malware-list] TALPA - a threat model?  well sorta.
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:16:22 -0400
Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> > I believe we really do need the block-on-open.  

I believe more that we need block-on-read ;-)
(on open we can start an async scan to cut latency)

read() (or mmap etc) is where the actual use/transfer of
contaminated data happens, not in the open.


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