Re: [PATCH] selinux: enable per-file labeling for debugfs files.

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On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 03:46:06PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> Add support for per-file labeling of debugfs files so that
> we can distinguish them in policy.  This is particularly
> important in Android where certain debugfs files have to be writable
> by apps and therefore the debugfs directory tree can be read and
> searched by all.
> 
> Since debugfs is entirely kernel-generated, the directory tree is
> immutable by userspace, and the inodes are pinned in memory, we can
> simply use the same approach as with proc and label the inodes from
> policy based on pathname from the root of the debugfs filesystem.
> Generalize the existing labeling support used for proc and reuse it
> for debugfs too.

Was there a compelling reason not to implement something similar for /sys?

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