Re: [PATCH 10/29] selinux: implement set acl hook

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On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 01:35:08PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> If a dentry is truly needed by EVM (a quick look indicates that it may
> just be for the VFS getxattr API, but I haven't traced the full code
> path), then I'm having a hard time reconciling that this isn't a
> dentry operation.  Yes, I get that the ACLs belong to the inode and
> not the dentry, but then why do we need the dentry?  It seems like the
> interfaces are broken slightly, or at least a little odd ... <shrug>

The dentry_operations are bit misnamed and should probably have been
called dcache_operations, that is they are all about managing the
dcache state and closely related operations.  ACLs aren't like that.



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