linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] security/selinux: fix /proc/sys/ labeling

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Date:	Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:14:10 -0800
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@...il.com>
Cc:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] security/selinux: fix /proc/sys/ labeling

Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@...il.com> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
>> What kernel has a dentry_path_raw?  Perhaps you mean __dentry_path?
>
>
> See the function here:
> https://github.com/mirrors/linux-2.6/blob/70d1f365568e0cdbc9f4ab92428e1830fdb09ab0/fs/dcache.c
>
> The last patches were against 2.6.38-rc2 because the dcache layer got
> rewritten in 2.6.38 http://lwn.net/Articles/421784/
>
> __dentry_path is now static (in fs/dcache.c) and does not take the
> necessary locks.

Thanks.  I thought I was looking at the latest source but it turns out
I fat fingered something and my tree was still 2.6.36-rc3.  Sigh.

dentry_path_raw does seem reasonable.

Eric
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