Re: [patch 01/15] security: pass path to inode_create

[Miklos Szeredi]

> > > I maintain, that moving lsm hooks into callers is insane.  And that's
> > > *the* sanest alternative that anybody has been able to come up with to
> > > passing down vfsmounts into the vfs.
> > 
> > Not so.  I showed how pathname-based security could be done *without*
> > passing vfsmounts down at all.  Unfortunately, you weren't interested.
> 
> Umm, not sure what you are referring to.  Could you please give a
> pointer?  I'm sure the apparmor developers would be more than
> interested in such a scheme, if it does indeed work.

Found it:

   http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/9/98

I did not take part in that discussion and could not have been able to
contribute anyway.  From a cursory read of the thread, the idea was
good, but not entirely applicable to apparmor.  Or did I miss
something?

Thanks,
Miklos
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