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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080827160439.GA12085@us.ibm.com>
References: <20080827160439.GA12085@us.ibm.com> <200808262057.51606.agruen@suse.de> <20080827135206.GA12919@us.ibm.com> <200808271729.18220.agruen@suse.de>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>,
       "Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] file capabilities: Add no_file_caps switch
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:13:24 +0100
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Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> (Also note that if you have such users, you'll want to ask David Howells not
> to push the patch he has floated removing the ability to pass caps to
> another task altogether when CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES=n :)

Ugh.  My patch removes the ability to pass caps to another task under all
circumstances because to do otherwise means that I have to make the kernel use
RCU locking for a task to access its own creds.  If you want this, I'll have
to redo all my later patches.

David
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