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From: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, jmorris@namei.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl selinux: Don't look at table->de
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:19:39 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <822578.32683.qm@web36607.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070130102508.GA10526@infradead.org>


--- Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:08:39AM -0800, Casey
> Schaufler wrote:
> > Alternativly you could move the SELinux specific
> > bits out of /proc/self/attr into an equivalent
> > /selinux/self/attr and avoid that /proc
> dependency.
> 
> Why?

To avoid the dependency and remove the issue.
Just a thought. Weigh the advantages and
disadvantages and do what seems right.

> procfs is essential for any kind of fullblown
> linux system,

Kids!

> and the selinux actually fits into the original
> procfs intention,

Yes, it does. It's a good use of /proc.

> unlike all the other junk we've added over the
> years.

You won't get any arguements from me there.


Casey Schaufler
casey@schaufler-ca.com

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-30 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200701280106.l0S16CG3019873@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
     [not found] ` <20070127172410.2b041952.akpm@osdl.org>
     [not found]   ` <1169972718.17469.164.camel@localhost.localdomain>
     [not found]     ` <20070128003549.2ca38dc8.akpm@osdl.org>
     [not found]       ` <20070128093358.GA2071@elte.hu>
     [not found]         ` <20070128095712.GA6485@elte.hu>
     [not found]           ` <20070128100627.GA8416@elte.hu>
     [not found]             ` <20070128104548.a835d859.akpm@osdl.org>
2007-01-28 19:21               ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-29 13:04                 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-01-29 15:23                   ` James Morris
2007-01-29 17:55                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-29 19:26                       ` Stephen Smalley
2007-01-29 17:43                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-29 18:43                     ` Stephen Smalley
2007-01-29 19:08                       ` Casey Schaufler
2007-01-29 20:07                         ` Stephen Smalley
2007-01-30 10:25                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-30 17:19                           ` Casey Schaufler [this message]
2007-01-29 19:16                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-29 23:28                       ` Russell Coker
2007-02-06 21:16                   ` [PATCH 1/2] sysctl: Add a parent entry to ctl_table and set the parent entry Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-06 21:21                     ` [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: Restore the selinux path based label lookup for sysctls Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-07 18:24                       ` Stephen Smalley
2007-02-07 21:12                         ` Stephen Smalley
2007-02-07 21:54                           ` Stephen Smalley
2007-02-07 22:21                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 15:07                               ` Stephen Smalley
2007-02-08  1:57                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 15:01                             ` Stephen Smalley
2007-02-08 17:53                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 18:13                                 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-02-08 22:17                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 22:51                                     ` [PATCH 0/5] sysctl cleanup selinux fixes Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 22:53                                       ` [PATCH 1/5] sysctl: Remove declaration of nonexistent sysctl_init() Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 22:54                                         ` [PATCH 2/5] sysctl: Set the parent field in the root sysctl table Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 22:55                                           ` [PATCH 3/5] sysctl: Fix the selinux_sysctl_get_sid Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 23:02                                             ` [PATCH 4/5] selinux: Enhance selinux to always ignore private inodes Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 23:04                                               ` [PATCH 5/5] sysctl: Hide the sysctl proc inodes from selinux Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-09 12:26                                               ` [PATCH 4/5] selinux: Enhance selinux to always ignore private inodes Stephen Smalley
2007-02-09 12:24                                             ` [PATCH 3/5] sysctl: Fix the selinux_sysctl_get_sid Stephen Smalley
2007-02-09 11:05                                       ` [PATCH 0/5] sysctl cleanup selinux fixes Andrew Morton
2007-02-09 18:09                                         ` Eric W. Biederman

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