On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, David P. Quigley wrote:
>
> This patch set does two things. First it factors the section of vfs_setxattr
> that does the real work into a helper function. This allows LSMs the ability
> to set the xattrs they need without hitting the permission check inside
> vfs_setxattr each time. Second it introduces three new hooks
> inode_{get,set}secctx, and inode_notifysecctx.
>
> The first hook retreives all security information the LSM feels is relavent in
> the form of a security context. The second hook given this context can sets
> both the in-core and on-disk store for the particular inode. The third hook is
> used to notify the in-core inode of a change to it's security state.
>
> This is the fourth revision of this patch set which takes into account
> concerns by Casey Schaufler, and Christop Hellwig.
Cristoph, Casey -- any chance of getting ack or nack on this before the
merge window closes?
Thanks.
>
> fs/xattr.c | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> include/linux/security.h | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/xattr.h | 1 +
> security/dummy.c | 17 +++++++++++++
> security/security.c | 18 ++++++++++++++
> security/selinux/hooks.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 6 files changed, 157 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
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