Re: [PATCH] BSD Secure Levels: claim block dev in file struct rather than inode struct, 2.6.11-rc2-mm1 (3/8)

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:26:03 PST, Chris Wright said:
> * Michael Halcrow (mhalcrow@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > This is the third in a series of eight patches to the BSD Secure
> > Levels LSM.  It moves the claim on the block device from the inode
> > struct to the file struct in order to address a potential
> > circumvention of the control via hard links to block devices.  Thanks
> > to Serge Hallyn for pointing this out.
> 
> Hard links still point to same inode, what's the issue that this
> addresses?

Ignore that last - I thought it was the "filesystem linking permissions"
thread rather than the BSD Secure linking permissions thread. ;)

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