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Message-ID: <20071104122848.GC3921@ucw.cz>
Date:	Sun, 4 Nov 2007 12:28:48 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	"Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@...il.com>
Cc:	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>, akpm@...l.org,
	torvalds@...l.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

Hi!

> > Still to come:
> > 
> >   - Final cleanup of smack_load_write and smack_cipso_write.
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> After agreeing with Casey on the "load" input grammar yesterday, here's
> the final grammar and its parser (which needs more testing):
> 
> A Smack Rule in an "egrep" format is:
> 
> "^[:space:]*Subject[:space:]+Object[:space:]+[rwxaRWXA-]+[:space:]*\n"
> 
> where Subject/Object strings are in the form:
> 
> "^[^/[:space:][:cntrl:]]{1,SMK_MAXLEN}$"

Can we avoid string parsers in the kernel?


> +static inline int isblank(char c)
> +{
> +	return (c == ' ' || c == '\t');
> +}

This sounds like enough for 'NAK'.

						Pavel,
		who still thinks smack rules should be parsed
		in userspace and compiled into selinux rules...
		
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