linux-kernel - Re: [patch 6/8] Factor out sysctl pathname code

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Message-ID: <20080531082757.GF24135@infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 31 May 2008 04:27:57 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, hch@...radead.org,
	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>,
	John Johansen <jjohansen@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 6/8] Factor out sysctl pathname code

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:32:51PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Convert the selinux sysctl pathname computation code into a standalone
> function.

No point bloating core kernel for selinux mess.  And this whole routine
should rather go away rather than moving it to core code.  While doing
pathname based lookup for the label might work for the limited case
of sysctl where there are no symlinks but is a rather dumb idea in
general.  And reconstructing this path from the sysctl tables is twice
as dumb.
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