Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:30:19 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: John Ogness <dazukocode@ogness.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
       malware-list@lists.printk.net, eparis@redhat.com, hch@infradead.org,
       alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] VFS: DazukoFS, stackable-fs, file access control
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On Wed 2008-12-24 13:11:29, John Ogness wrote:
> On 2008-12-24, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> >> If you are aware of a race condition in DazukoFS, please report
> >> it. Thank you.
> >
> > I'm surprised, do you claim there is none?
> 
> It depends on how you want to define "race condition". DazukoFS (in
> its current form) closes as many holes as default UNIX permissions or
> SElinux. However, changing permissions (i.e. scanning files) _after_
> two parties already have an open handle to the file is currently not
> covered. But this issue is not unique to DazukoFS (although as a
> stackable filesystem, DazukoFS could support this case as well).

Not unique to dazukofs, but regression to scanning at nfsd level,
right? So I guess it should be mentioned in changelog if you compare
yourself to solutions that do not have this problem.
								Pavel
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