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Date:   Sat, 7 Nov 2020 12:33:11 +1100 (AEDT)
From:   James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To:     Olga Kornievskaia <olga.kornievskaia@gmail.com>
cc:     trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com, anna.schumaker@netapp.com,
        paul@paul-moore.com, stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [lsm] introduce a new hook to query LSM for
 functionality
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On Thu, 5 Nov 2020, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:

> From: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
> 
> Add a new hook func_query_vfs to query an LSM module (such as
> SELinux) with the intention of finding whether or not it is enabled
> or perhaps supports some functionality.
> 
> NFS stores security labels for file system objects and SElinux
> or any other LSM module can query those objects. But it's
> wasteful to do so when no security enforcement is taking place.
> Using a new API call of security_func_query_vfs() and asking if

Seems we lost something here.


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James Morris
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