Re: 2001_04_25 patch against 2.4.3

From: Chris Wright (chrisat_private)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 19:37:58 PDT

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    * Greg KH (gregat_private) wrote:
    > Here's an updated patch.  It contains much work by Chris to push the
    > capabilities logic into a module (I'll let him explain it some more.)
    
    This was my first attempt at pushing capabilities into it's own module.
    this has helped flush out the interface a bit.  it was good to see that some
    of Stephen Smalley's requests were met by this first push ;-) the module has
    some implementation in it, but it is no where near complete.  everything
    compiles (so it must work ;-).
    
    A couple of issues:
    
    1)  iirc, the task_struct, binprm struct, and netlink_skb_parms all carry
    kernel_cap_t so these will get opaque security blobs.  this means dynamic
    allocation of the blob, needs optimization...
    
    2)  how to share this module
    
    and something else that i can't remember right now...see my response to
    Stephen Smalley for more details on the work (or the patch itself ;-)
    
    -chris
    
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