Re: [PATCH 04/17] Security: Add hook to calculate context based on a negative dentry.

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On 4/24/2013 4:05 PM, David Quigley wrote:
> On 04/24/2013 19:03, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 06:14:16PM -0400, David Quigley wrote:
>>> On 04/24/2013 18:12, Steve Dickson wrote:
>>> >On 24/04/13 18:02, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>>> >>n Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 04:17:50PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
>>> >>>> From: David Quigley <dpquigl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> There is a time where we need to calculate a context without the
>>> >>>> inode having been created yet. To do this we take the
>>> >>>negative dentry and
>>> >>>> calculate a context based on the process and the parent
>>> >>>directory contexts.
>>> >>How can we get review from security/selinux folks?  I can't
>>> >>apply these
>>> >>without....
>>> >Its my understand they have been reviewed a number times... And
>>> >they have not
>>> >change since I've working on these patches...
>>> >
>>> >steved.
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>>> That is correct. They have been acked in the past and haven't
>>> changed at all since then.

For the record, I haven't ACKed because I have been unable to
get the NFS labeling to work with Smack. I also note that I
am not NAKing, either, as I have not had the time to determine
what's wrong. I do know that the ideas floated at the time turned
out to not be the problem. Hopefully I'll have time to look
into this sometime.


>>
>> Oh, OK, sorry--I lost track.  (Do you have a pointer?)
>
> I may be able to crawl through MARC.info for my old email address to
> see if I can find it but that is probably more effort than its worth.
> All of those ACKs and what not are saved in my old NSA email (assuming
> its still being kept around).
>
>>
>>> I have contacted Eric Paris about
>>> reviewing them anyway so you can have a more recent ack on the
>>> patches.
>>
>> But that would be helpful too, thanks.
>>
>> --b.
>
>
> I think its a good idea to have Eric look through them anyway just to
> be sure.
>
> Dave
>
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