Re: [RFC][PATCH 10/11] security: AppArmor - Add flags to d_path

[Stephen Smalley]

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 10:50 -0700, Tony Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 06:04:19PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > p.s.: I also see that your patch doesn't include on to export d_path so
> > couldn't actually use it anyway. Not that a patch to export it would ever
> > be ACKed for above reasons..
> 
> Don't understand. Are you saying there is no EXPORT_SYMBOL for d_path?
> 
> I didn't add one as I didn't remove the old one.  It's still there.

Yes, it does appear to be exported already, presumably for nfsd.  Still
leaves open the question of whether it should be exported, or more
importantly what is considered legitimate use of it.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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