Re: Authoritative hooks updated to 2.4.13

From: Stephen Smalley (sdsat_private)
Date: Fri Oct 26 2001 - 08:13:49 PDT

  • Next message: Stephen Smalley: "Re: Authoritative hooks updated to 2.4.13"

    On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Stephen Smalley wrote:
    
    > A second concern:  In do_remount, you made it possible to override some
    > functional tests (check_mnt, nd->dentry != nd->mnt->mnt_root) with the
    > authoritative hook.  Why?  I don't think that we want to allow a security
    > module to override these kinds of checks.  Sorry if this has come up
    > previously - I've been too preoccupied with other things to follow this
    > thread recently.
    
    Oh, never mind.  My mistake.  I see that you don't actually allow the hook
    to change the err value.  So this is just ensuring that the post hook is
    always called.  I was confused by the fact that you do this both for
    access control tests (the capable call) and functional tests.
    
    --
    Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs
    ssmalleyat_private
    
    
    
    
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