Re: [PATCH] net device hooks

From: James Morris (jmorrisat_private)
Date: Tue Jul 24 2001 - 18:58:01 PDT

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    On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Wayne Salamon wrote:
    
    >
    >   OK, but how many hooks do we want?  Minimal, correct? Looking at ioctl.c,
    >
    
    I would suggest that we simply start by adding all of the hooks that are
    needed for each of the LSM-based projects and refactor as appropriate.  I
    don't think we can anticipate every possible case at this stage.
    
    Let us assume that the combined requirements of selinux, rsbac, dte, sgi,
    immunix etc. constitute a reasonably generic set of security requirements
    for the kernel.
    
    In the netdevice case, we are checking userspace data and the hook needs
    to be down at the level where the data is normally copied.  Also, I feel
    that the hook granularity is correct for this case, and provides a useful
    level of abstraction to the LSM module developer.
    
    
    - James
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