Re: [PATCH 08/14] NFSv4: Add label recommended attribute and NFSv4 flags

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On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, David P. Quigley wrote:

> We tried to change this to be dynamically allocated based on what was
> coming off of the wire but we ran into a problem that it required us to
> do allocations where they really shouldn't be done in the rpc/nfsv4
> code. Trond suggested to make this static and that if someone really
> needed more than a page for their label that something was horrifically
> wrong. I'm tempted to agree with him on this but there are people trying
> to send contexts with an MLS component with every other compartment set
> which tend to be really large. 

Well, future labels might include cryptographic information, for example.

-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>

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