Re: [PATCH] Process Attribute API for Security Modules 2.5.69

From: viroat_private
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 06:19:26 PDT

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    On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:02:46AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
    > On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 06:50, viroat_private
    > wrote:
    > > Umm...  How about having it merged with proc_base_readdir()?  I.e.
    > > have both call the common helper.  Ditto for lookups.
    > > 
    > > Other than that (and missing check for copy_to_user() return value in
    > > ->read()) I don't see any problems here.
    > 
    > This updated patch against 2.5.69 merges the readdir and lookup routines
    > for proc_base and proc_attr, fixes the copy_to_user call in
    > proc_attr_read and proc_info_read, moves the new data and code within
    > CONFIG_SECURITY, and uses ARRAY_SIZE, per the comments from Al Viro and
    > Andrew Morton.  As before, this patch implements a process attribute API
    > for security modules via a set of nodes in a /proc/pid/attr directory.
    > Credit for the idea of implementing this API via /proc/pid/attr nodes
    > goes to Al Viro.  Jan Harkes provided a nice cleanup of the
    > implementation to reduce the code bloat.
    
    [snip]
    
    Looks sane...
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