Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 20:26:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 20:26:53 -0400 Received: from cerebus.wirex.com ([65.102.14.138]:25078 "EHLO figure1.int.wirex.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 20:26:52 -0400 Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 17:26:56 -0700 From: Chris Wright To: Ingo Oeser Cc: Greg KH , Gabor Kerenyi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Wright Subject: Re: extended file permissions based on LSM Message-ID: <20020831172656.E11165@figure1.int.wirex.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ingo Oeser , Greg KH , Gabor Kerenyi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Wright References: <200208310616.04709.wom@tateyama.hu> <20020831052114.GA12082@kroah.com> <20020831095747.A781@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020831095747.A781@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de>; from ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de on Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 09:57:47AM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 604 Lines: 17 * Ingo Oeser (ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de) wrote: > > So this is a correctly pointed out design weakness: The way the > user took to reach the inode cannot be taken into account. Yes, this is known, and there are anticipated VFS changes to remedy this. thanks, -chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net - 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/