Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation,pathname matching

[James Morris]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Casey Schaufler wrote:

> 
> --- James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On my system, it takes about 1.2 seconds to label a fully checked out 
> > kernel source tree with ~23,000 files in this manner
> 
> That's an eternity for that many files to be improperly labeled.
> If, and the "if" didn't originate with me, your policy is
> demonstrably correct (how do you do that?) for all domains
> you could claim that the action is safe, if not ideal. 
> I can't say if an evaluation team would buy the "safe"
> argument. They've been known to balk before.

To clarify:

We are discussing a scheme where the underlying SELinux labeling policy 
always ensures a safe label on a file, and then relabeling newly created 
files according to their pathnames.

There is no expectation that this scheme would be submitted for 
certification.  Its purpose is to merely to provide pathname-based 
labeling outside of the kernel.



- James
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James Morris
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