linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/11] VFS: Add security label support to *notify

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Message-ID: <20080228235427.GA17757@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:54:27 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"David P. Quigley" <dpquigl@...ho.nsa.gov>
Cc:	hch@...radead.org, viro@....linux.org.uk,
	trond.myklebust@....uio.no, bfields@...ldses.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] VFS: Add security label support to *notify

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:11:26PM -0500, David P. Quigley wrote:
> This patch adds two new fields to the iattr structure. The first field holds a
> security label while the second contains the length of this label. In addition
> the patch adds a new helper function inode_setsecurity which calls the LSM to
> set the security label on the inode. Finally the patch modifies the necessary
> functions such that fsnotify_change can handle notification requests for
> dnotify and inotify.

Please don't overload setattr with this.  Just looking at your callers
shows that it's much cleaner as a separate method.

Now what's really lacking is a desciption _why_ you actually need it
to start with.  The current method to set security labels is through
the security.* xattrs.  Now if we want to clean up that somewhat
messy method that might be a good idea, but we should do it for all
callers and not just some.

> +#define DN_LABEL        0x00000040      /* File (re)labeled */

An any inotify/dnotify additions should be separate from the vfs to
filesystem interface.  Please make it a separate patch and describe
properly why it's needed in it's description.

> index df6b95d..1169963 100644
> --- a/include/linux/xattr.h
> +++ b/include/linux/xattr.h
> @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ ssize_t xattr_getsecurity(struct inode *, const char *, void *, size_t);
>  ssize_t vfs_getxattr(struct dentry *, char *, void *, size_t);
>  ssize_t vfs_listxattr(struct dentry *d, char *list, size_t size);
>  int vfs_setxattr(struct dentry *, char *, void *, size_t, int);
> +int vfs_setxattr_locked(struct dentry *, char *, void *, size_t, int);
>  int vfs_removexattr(struct dentry *, char *);
>  
>  ssize_t generic_getxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size);
> -- 
> 1.5.3.8
> 
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