linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sysctl selinux: Don't look at table->de

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Date:	Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:08:39 -0800 (PST)
From:	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
To:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	selinux@...ho.nsa.gov, jmorris@...ei.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl selinux: Don't look at table->de


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

> True, but a system that disables proc is likely a
> system with a custom
> policy anyway, and dependency on proc is fairly
> basic to selinux these
> days (due to reliance on /proc/self/attr for process
> attribute
> manipulation in place of the old selinux syscalls). 
> Possibly we should
> just make selinux depend on proc and drop the #ifdef
> there.

Alternativly you could move the SELinux specific
bits out of /proc/self/attr into an equivalent
/selinux/self/attr and avoid that /proc dependency.



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