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Message-ID: <Line.LNX.4.64.0706152057390.29737@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:21:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Crispin Cowan <crispin@...ell.com>,
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>,
Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>, jjohansen@...e.de,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation,
pathname matching
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Greg KH wrote:
> Oh great, then things like source code control systems would have no
> problems with new files being created under them, or renaming whole
> trees.
It depends -- I think we may be talking about different things.
If you're using inotify to watch for new files and kick something in
userspace to relabel them, it could take a while to relabel a lot of
files, although there are likely some gains to be had from parallel
relabeling which we've not explored.
What I was saying is that you can use traditional SELinux labeling policy
underneath that to ensure that there is always a safe label on each file
before it is relabeled from userspace.
> So, so much for the "it's going to be too slow re-labeling everything"
> issue, as it's not even required for almost all situations :)
You could probably get an idea of the cost by running something like:
$ time find /usr/src/linux | xargs setfattr -n user.foo -v bar
On my system, it takes about 1.2 seconds to label a fully checked out
kernel source tree with ~23,000 files in this manner, on a stock standard
ext3 filesystem with a SATA drive.
- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>
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