Re: [PATCH] vfs: new FROM_ACCESS flag

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 09:30:48PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> This new acc_mode flag is just to tell the security system this inode
> permission check is from the access system call.  The security system can
> use this information as it finds appropriete.  In particular SELinux plans to
> use this flag to alter what we choose to audit and what we do not choose to
> audit.

I think you're better off splitting the existing MAY_ACCESS flag and
only using MAY_ACCESS for calles from access() insteaf of introducing
a FROM_ACCESS flag and causing lots of naming confusion.

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