Re: Some feedback on the hooks

From: Chris Wright (chrisat_private)
Date: Thu Apr 26 2001 - 11:44:45 PDT

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    * Stephen Smalley (sdsat_private) wrote:
    > 
    > On a side note, should the alloc_security and free_security hooks
    > be made consistent with the other hooks, i.e. passing a pointer
    > to the object and letting the hook set/free the internal security
    > field rather than returning/passing the security field itself?
    > You already have a case where you must pass the object to the
    > alloc_security hook (for linux_binprm), and it seems like
    > you might also want the object in inode free_security calls 
    > so that you can clear the inode's entry in the persistent
    > label mapping.  However, in that case, the inode's free_security
    > hook shouldn't be called until just before calling delete in
    > iput, so perhaps you want a separate hook for that purpose.
    
    yeah, greg and i were planning on making that interface uniform.
    
    -chris
    
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