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Re: [PATCH 01/11] Security: Add hook to get full maclabel xattr name

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To: David P. Quigley <dpquigl@...>, <hch@...>, <viro@...>, <trond.myklebust@...>, <bfields@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-fsdevel@...>, David P. Quigley <dpquigl@...>
Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 7:42 pm

--- "David P. Quigley" <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:


I think that calling this a maclabel is a really bad idea. For one
thing, it assumes that all interesting security attributes are for
Mandatory Access Control. Also, it assumes that they are stored as
xattrs. While these conditions are both met by the two current LSMs
I would suggest that this is not a fair assumption for the long
haul unless the intention is to lock the lSM into only supporting
xattr based label based MAC modules.

If you are only interested in supporting one LSM then the code should
go into that LSM specific code, not the LSM proper.
  


Casey Schaufler
casey@schaufler-ca.com
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RFC Labeled NFS Initial Code Review, David P. Quigley, (Wed Feb 27, 6:11 pm)
Re: RFC Labeled NFS Initial Code Review, Dave Quigley, (Wed Feb 27, 9:23 pm)
Re: RFC Labeled NFS Initial Code Review, Dave Quigley, (Wed Feb 27, 8:48 pm)
[PATCH 06/11] SELinux: Add new labeling type native labels, David P. Quigley, (Wed Feb 27, 6:11 pm)
[PATCH 03/11] VFS: Add security label support to *notify, David P. Quigley, (Wed Feb 27, 6:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH 03/11] VFS: Add security label support to *notify, Christoph Hellwig, (Thu Feb 28, 7:54 pm)
Re: [PATCH 03/11] VFS: Add security label support to *notify, Christoph Hellwig, (Thu Feb 28, 8:23 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/11] Security: Add hook to get full maclabel xa..., Casey Schaufler, (Wed Feb 27, 7:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/11] Security: Add hook to get full maclabel xa..., Christoph Hellwig, (Thu Feb 28, 7:48 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/11] Security: Add hook to get full maclabel xa..., Christoph Hellwig, (Thu Feb 28, 8:39 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/11] Security: Add hook to get full maclabel xa..., Christoph Hellwig, (Thu Feb 28, 9:00 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/11] Security: Add hook to get full maclabel xa..., Christoph Hellwig, (Thu Feb 28, 8:51 pm)
[PATCH 11/11] NFSD: Server implementation of MAC Labeling, David P. Quigley, (Wed Feb 27, 6:11 pm)
[PATCH 09/11] NFS: Client implementation of Labeled-NFS, David P. Quigley, (Wed Feb 27, 6:11 pm)
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