Re: [PATCH 12/19] CacheFiles: Permit a process's create SID to be overridden

[David Howells]

Karl MacMillan <kmacmillan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > and the race in which the rules might change is still a
> > possibility I have to deal with.
> 
> I don't think this is a race, it is revocation of access. If you check the
> access at every operation and correctly deal with access failures, then this
> shouldn't be a problem. Yes it is a pain, but that is how SELinux is supposed
> to work.

Yes, but what is the correct method of dealing with a failure?  All I can think
of is to SIGKILL the process.

David
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