Re: Out of tree module using LSM

[Ray Lee]

On Nov 29, 2007 9:45 AM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Perhaps if you looked at this outside of a file-server scenario, the
> > problem would be clearer? Anti-malware companies want to check
> > anything written to disk on a system, either at write time or blocking
> > the open/mmap. That means proactively protecting email programs with
> > known vulnerabilities that have yet to be patched, web browsers
> > writing and reading their caches, an Apache instance running WebDAV,
> > the list goes on. And these are on desktop systems, with no attached
> > file/network server.
>
> Ok, if they want to check on every open/mmap then just hook in glibc to
> do this.  Especially as they want to run userspace code at this point in
> time.

Doesn't help statically linked binaries, or anything else that bypases glibc.

But yes, I'll let them argue their point from here.
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