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Message-ID: <Xine.LNX.4.64.0807310736520.28737@us.intercode.com.au>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:52:42 +1000 (EST)
From: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>
cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] vfs: make security_inode_setattr() calling consistent
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> Unfortunate since we'd prefer to have the DAC checks applied first, and
> since inode_change_ok() may alter the ia_mode in response to those
> checks, but it does seem inconsistent at present and it doesn't yield
> any difference in the ltp selinux testsuite results.
No LSM seems to be using ia_mode, so that aspect is ok. The DAC checks
are generally not being applied first currently, so common case behaviour
doesn't change with this patch.
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
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