linux-kernel - Re: [AppArmor 19/45] Add struct vfsmount parameters to vfs

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Message-ID: <20071026073749.GE8181@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:37:49 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To:	jjohansen@...e.de
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, Tony Jones <tonyj@...e.de>,
	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [AppArmor 19/45] Add struct vfsmount parameters to vfs_rename()

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 11:40:43PM -0700, jjohansen@...e.de wrote:
> The vfsmount will be passed down to the LSM hook so that LSMs can compute
> pathnames.

You know, you really are supposed to understand the code you are modifying...
Quiz: what are those vfsmounts and how are they related?

Al, carefully abstaining from saying what he really thinks of LSM and its
users...
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