Re: [PATCH] add securityfs for all LSMs to use

From: Joshua Brindle (jbrindle@private)
Date: Wed Jul 06 2005 - 10:05:40 PDT


On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 01:17 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Here's a small patch against 2.6.13-rc2 that adds securityfs, a virtual
> fs that all LSMs can use instead of creating their own.  The fs should
> be mounted at /sys/kernel/security, and the fs creates that mount point.
> This will make the LSB people happy that we aren't creating a new
> /my_lsm_fs directory in the root for every different LSM.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@private>

This looks like a great idea but shouldn't this be mounted in proc? lsm
is very much about processes and very little about hardware, you'll end
up with 2 nebulous filesystems by adding stuff to sys that belongs in
proc.

Joshua Brindle



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