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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:46:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To: Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@...e.de>
cc: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Crispin Cowan <crispin@...ell.com>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
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, Seth Arnold wrote:
> > How does inotify not work here? You are notified that the tree is
> > moved, your daemon goes through and relabels things as needed. In the
> > meantime, before the re-label happens, you might have the wrong label on
> > things, but "somehow" SELinux already handles this, so I think you
> > should be fine.
>
> SELinux does not relabel files when containing directories move, so it
> is not a problem they've chosen to face.
It's a deliberate design choice, and follows traditional Unix security
logic. DAC permissions don't change on every file in the subtree when you
mv directories, either.
- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>
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