Re: [RFD 0/4] AppArmor - Don't pass NULL nameidata to vfs_create/lookup/permission IOPs

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On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 16:15 -0700, jjohansen@xxxxxxx wrote:
> To remove conditionally passing of vfsmounts to the LSM, a nameidata
> struct can be instantiated in the nfsd and mqueue filesystems.  This
> however results in useless information being passed down, as not
> all fields in the nameidata struct will be meaingful.  The nameidata
> struct is split creating struct nameidata2 that contains only the
> fields
> that will carry meaningful information.

I don't object to the concept per se, but could you please give it a
more descriptive name please? "struct vfs_intent" would be a lot more
accurate than "nameidata2".

Trond

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