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Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:48:25 -0800 From: Andrew Morgan <morgan@...nel.org> To: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@...gai.gr.jp> CC: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@...jp.nec.com>, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>, jmorris@...ei.org, akpm@...l.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Exporting capability code/name pairs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is also the issue of compiled code which explicitly raises and lowers capabilities around critical code sections (ie., as they were intended to be used) is also not well served by this change. That is, unless the code was compiled with things like CAP_MAC_ADMIN being #define'd then it won't be able to do things like cap_set_flag() appropriately. Cheers Andrew KaiGai Kohei wrote: > Andrew Morgan wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> KaiGai Kohei wrote: >>> Remaining issues: >>> - We have to mount securityfs explicitly, or use /etc/fstab. >>> It can cause a matter when we want to use this feature on >>> very early phase on boot. (like /sbin/init) >> I'm not altogether clear how you intend this to work. >> >> Are you saying that some future version of libcap will require that >> securityfs be mounted before it (libcap) will work? > > Yes, but implementing this feature on securityfs might be not good > idea as as James said. If this feature is on procfs or sysfs, it is > not necessary to mount securityfs explicitly. > > Thanks, -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHfD7n+bHCR3gb8jsRAsgcAKDY6qXBR3JV2addHUg5sxyZHJEkDQCfdLOL zJlf3T4SQsUNENr3kwR5pr8= =v8C5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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