linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] CacheFiles: Add calls to path-based security hooks [ver #2]

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Date:	Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:03:54 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	tomoyo-users-en@...ts.sourceforge.jp,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CacheFiles: Add calls to path-based security hooks [ver #2]

James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> wrote:

> > Add calls to path-based security hooks into CacheFiles as, unlike
> > inode-based security, these aren't implicit in the vfs_mkdir() and similar
> > calls.
> 
> Adding fsdevel for further review - cachefiles is essentially part of the 
> vfs, right ?

It certainly makes good use of the VFS interfaces, so I suppose in that sense,
yes.

David
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