--- "David P. Quigley" <dpquigl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When a caller wishes to get pull the extended attribute name for the security > module for use they normally concatinate the security namespace segment and > the > suffix provided by the lsm. This hook provides a mechanism to obtain the full > LSM xattr name. The patch also provides implementations for the dummy > security > module and SELinux. What is the problem with the concatination scheme currently in use? I'm not going to defend it, but why change it? > Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <dpquigl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Matthew N. Dodd <Matthew.Dodd@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > include/linux/security.h | 7 +++++++ > security/dummy.c | 6 ++++++ > security/security.c | 6 ++++++ > security/selinux/hooks.c | 6 ++++++ > 4 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) Please cross post proposed LSM changes to the LSM mailing list. Casey Schaufler casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.
