linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/7] KEYS: Add keyctl function to get a security label

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Date:	Wed, 5 Dec 2007 17:40:15 -0800 (PST)
From:	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@...hat.com>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, casey@...aufler-ca.com, viro@....linux.org.uk,
	hch@...radead.org, Trond.Myklebust@...app.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] KEYS: Add keyctl function to get a security label


--- David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

> Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov> wrote:
> 
> > inode_getsecurity and getprocattr directly return the strings.
> > Admittedly, the whole interface could be cleaned up and made far more
> > consistent, but I don't think he necessarily has to go through the
> > getsecid + secid_to_secctx sequence if he only wants the secctx.
> 
> It's what Daniel Walsh wanted.

Name dropper. And we don't have a convention, really. So go ahead
with key_getsecurity or key_getsecctx, as you choose. At some point
we should either change inode_getsecurity to inode_getsecctx or
secid_to_secctx to secid_to_security. Not the problem of the day.



Casey Schaufler
casey@...aufler-ca.com
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