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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:50:06 -0800 From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> Cc: Dave Quigley <dpquigl@...ho.nsa.gov>, Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>, casey@...aufler-ca.com, viro@....linux.org.uk, bfields@...ldses.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] Security: Add hook to get full maclabel xattr name On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 19:39 -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:04:57PM -0500, Dave Quigley wrote: > > There are several things here. I've spoken to several people about this > > and the belief I've gotten from most of them is that a recommended > > attribute is how this is to be transported. The NFSv4 spec people will > > probably say that if you want xattr like functionality for NFSv4 use > > named attributes. For us this is not an option since we require > > semantics to label on create/open and the only way we can do this is by > > adding a recommended attribute. The create/open calls in NFSv4 takes a > > list of attributes to use on create as part of the request. I really > > don't see a difference between the security blob and the > > username/groupname that NFSv4 currently uses. Also there is a good > > chance that we will need to translate labels at some point (read future > > work). > > Then use the existing side-band protocol and ignore the NFSv4 spec > group. They're <skip colourful language here> anyway. As I've told you several times before: we're _NOT_ putting private ioctl^Hxattrs onto the wire. If the protocol can't be described in an RFC, then it isn't going in no matter what expletive you choose to use... -- 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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