linux-kernel - Re: Out of tree module using LSM

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Message-Id: <1196354172.6473.52.camel@perihelion>
Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:36:12 -0500
From:	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>,
	"Tvrtko A. Ursulin" <tvrtko.ursulin@...hos.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Out of tree module using LSM

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:07 -0800, Greg KH wrote:

> The easiest way is as Al described above, just have the userspace
> program that wrote the file to disk, check it then.

But the problem is that this isn't just Samba, this is a countless
myriad of different applications. And if one of them doesn't support
on-access scanning, then the whole solution isn't worth using.

> There are some nice SAMBA plugins that do just that already out there...

That's really not the problem :-)

Jon.


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