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

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Date:	Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:41:50 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>
Cc:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, aviro@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov,
	chrisw@...s-sol.org, jmorris@...ei.org
Subject: Re: Security issues with local filesystem caching 

Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov> wrote:

> When the daemon writes the context value (a string) to the cachefiles
> module interface for a given cache, the cachefiles module would do
> something like the following:

What would such a context value look like?  I don't really know much about
configuring SELinux.  Would it just be the name of a security label?

David
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