Re: [PATCH 1/4] vfs: adds the S_PRIVATE flag and adds use tosecurity

From: Stephen Smalley
Date: Mon Mar 07 2005 - 10:03:30 EST


On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 21:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeffrey Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This patch adds an S_PRIVATE flag to inode->i_flags to mark an inode as
> > filesystem-internal. As such, it should be excepted from the security
> > infrastructure to allow the filesystem to perform its own access control.
>
> OK, thanks. I'll assume that the other three patches are unchanged.
>
> I don't think we've heard from the SELinux team regarding these patches?
>
> (See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/selinux-reiserfs/)

Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
National Security Agency

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