Re: [PATCH] Version 8 (2.6.23) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

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From: Al Viro

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Version 8 (2.6.23) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 10:10 pm

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 05:57:05AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
quoted text> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 09:17:40PM -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote:

quoted text> Think what happens if CPU1 adds to list and CPU2 sees write to smk_known
> *before* it sees write to ->smk_next.  We see a single-element list and
> we'll be lucky if that single entry won't be FUBAR.

While we are at it, what protects smack_cipso_count?
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[PATCH] Version 8 (2.6.23) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Acc ..., Casey Schaufler, (Tue Oct 16, 9:17 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Version 8 (2.6.23) Smack: Simplified Mandatory ..., Al Viro, (Wed Oct 17, 9:57 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Version 8 (2.6.23) Smack: Simplified Mandatory ..., Al Viro, (Wed Oct 17, 10:10 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Version 8 (2.6.23) Smack: Simplified Mandatory ..., Casey Schaufler, (Thu Oct 18, 1:13 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Version 8 (2.6.23) Smack: Simplified Mandatory ..., Al Viro, (Thu Oct 18, 1:26 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Version 8 (2.6.23) Smack: Simplified Mandatory ..., Ahmed S. Darwish, (Fri Oct 19, 5:39 am)

[PATCH] Smackv8: Omit non-cipso labels in cipso_seq_start, Ahmed S. Darwish, (Sat Oct 20, 6:40 pm)

[PATCH] Smackv8: Safe lockless {cipso,load} read operation, Ahmed S. Darwish, (Sat Oct 20, 7:25 pm)


linux-kernel:
Ken Chen	[patch] sched: fix inconsistency when redistribute per-cpu tg->cfs_rq shares.
Ingo Molnar	Re: [PATCH v3] x86: merge the simple bitops and move them to bitops.h
Jan Engelhardt	Re: [PATCH] Allow Kconfig to set default mmap_min_addr protection
Dmitry Torokhov	Re: [2.6 patch] input/serio/hp_sdc.c section fix
Rafael J. Wysocki	[Bug #16380] Loop devices act strangely in 2.6.35
git:
Steven Grimm	Using git as a general backup mechanism (was Re: Using GIT to store /etc)
Jeff King	Re: [PATCH] git-reset: allow --soft in a bare repo
Johannes Sixt	Re: [PATCH 01/14] msvc: Fix compilation errors in compat/win32/sys/poll.c
Johannes Schindelin	Re: [PATCH] Uninstall rule for top level Makefile
Shawn O. Pearce	Re: [PATCH v2] Speed up bash completion loading
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Linux Kernel Mailing List	cgroups: clean up cgroup_pidlist_find() a bit
Linux Kernel Mailing List	sony-laptop: Add support for extended hotkeys
Linux Kernel Mailing List	IB/core: Add support for masked atomic operations
Linux Kernel Mailing List	V4L/DVB (8939): cx18: fix sparse warnings
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Inaky Perez-Gonzalez	[PATCH 40/40] wimax/i2400m: add CREDITS and MAINTAINERS entries
Karsten Keil	[mISDN PATCH v2 05/19] Reduce stack size in dsp_cmx_send()
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David Miller	Re: tun: Use netif_receive_skb instead of netif_rx
David Miller	Re: [net-next PATCH v2] llc enhancements
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