Re: [PATCH v2 00/30] acl: add vfs posix acl api

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On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 09:41:01AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 05:22:45PM -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> > I suggest that you might focus on the acl/evm interface rather than the entire
> > LSM interface. Unless there's a serious plan to make ima/evm into a proper LSM
> > I don't see how the breadth of this patch set is appropriate.
> 
> Umm. The problem is the historically the Linux xattr interface was
> intended for unstructured data, while some of it is very much structured
> and requires interpretation by the VFS and associated entities.  So
> splitting these out and add proper interface is absolutely the right
> thing to do and long overdue (also for other thing like capabilities).
> It might make things a little more verbose for LSM, but it fixes a very
> real problem.

Agreed.



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