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Message-ID: <20080307170808.GF27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 7 Mar 2008 17:08:08 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, menage@...gle.com,
	sukadev@...ibm.com, serue@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] Make use of permissions, returned by kobj_lookup

On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 09:01:04AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:

> Again, I object to this as you are driving a new security policy
> infrastructure into the device node logic where it does not belong as we
> already have this functionality in the LSM interface today.  Please use
> that one instead and don't clutter up the kernel with "one-off" security
> changes like this one.
> 
> Please try the LSM interface and see what happens.  If, after you have
> created a patch, you still have objections, please post it for review
> and I will be glad to revisit my opinion at that time.

Not that per-container mappings on that level made any kind of sense in
the first place...
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