linux-kernel - Re: Security issues with local filesystem caching

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Message-ID: <20061025202806.GC3854@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Date:	Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:28:06 -0400
From:	Josef Sipek <jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	sds@...ho.nsa.gov, jmorris@...ei.org, chrisw@...s-sol.org,
	selinux@...ho.nsa.gov, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	aviro@...hat.com
Subject: Re: Security issues with local filesystem caching

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 04:21:55PM -0400, Josef Sipek wrote:
...
> I'm wondering, why don't just you duplicate all the attributes of the files
> (including xattrs)? That would take care of most if not all the DAC/MAC
> issues, no?

By that I mean issues associated with accessing the cache, not creating the
cache copies.

Josef "Jeff" Sipek.

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