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Message-Id: <1187113368.26008.226.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:42:48 -0400 From: Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov> To: casey@...aufler-ca.com Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...l.org, steved@...hat.com, trond.myklebust@....uio.no, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-cachefs@...hat.com, nfsv4@...ux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov, LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] Permit filesystem local caching [try #3] On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 08:53 -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote: > --- David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote: > > > Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com> wrote: > > > > > With Smack you can leave the label alone, raise CAP_MAC_OVERRIDE, > > > do your business of setting the label correctly, and then drop > > > the capability. No new hooks required. > > > > That sounds like a contradiction. How can you both leave it alone and set > > it? > > Whoops, sorry. You leave the process label alone and explicitly > set the file label using the xattr interfaces. xattr interfaces don't help with the initial labeling of the file when it is created. -- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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