On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:31:15AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:46:56AM -0700, Titus D. Winters wrote: > > Here is a patch against the current posted patch that contains the minimum > > changes needed for the project Chris and I are working on. The changes > > are generally filesystem related to check the hooks before finding out the > > feasability of performing a filesystem operation, and return error values > > as specified from the hook. > > Why do you need to do the security checks before the "normal" system > checks? Are you trying to do a type of auditing that catches calls to > these functions no matter if the operation is invalid or not? > Yup, pretty much. Our project needs to be able to return specific values (mostly not found/doesn't exist values) when users try certain things. Sometimes the system logic is correct in denying, but incorrect for our purposes in error messages. _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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