Re: [PATCH 2/5] selinux: adds a private inode operation

[James Morris]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Stephen Smalley wrote:

> Actually, I think we need a new flag field in the inode_security_struct
> to explicitly mark these "private" inodes for SELinux, so that
> inode_has_perm() can skip permission checking on them while still
> applying checks to any other inodes that may have the kernel SID (e.g.
> /proc/pid inodes for kernel threads).

Agreed.


- James
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James Morris
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