Re: [PATCH v13 2/4] fs: add LSM-supporting anon-inode interface

From: dancol
Date: Wed Jan 06 2021 - 22:16:47 EST


On 2021-01-06 21:09, Paul Moore wrote:
Is it necessary to pass both the context_inode pointer and the secure
boolean? It seems like if context_inode is non-NULL then one could
assume that a secure anonymous inode was requested; is there ever
going to be a case where this is not true?

The converse isn't true though: it makes sense to ask for a secure inode with a NULL context inode.