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SELinux Mailing ListRe: [RFC PATCH v8 05/18] LSM: Add secctx_to_secid() LSM hook
From: Casey Schaufler <casey_at_schaufler-ca.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:42:06 -0800 (PST)
> On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 16:50 -0500, Paul Moore wrote: I can't provide any justifications why it shouldn't go in, and there will no doubt be places where the continued use of secids will require it going forward.
> Or alternatively we need to rationalize the entire selinux/exports Yeah. Smack is taking the pragmatic path, assuming that secid and secctx will be around at least until pigs nest in trees. You left out the USB subsystems's use of secid's, which may be the least savory of all.
> One thing to note is that some of these interfaces treat the context as Smack and SELiunx always provide a NUL-terminated string. I would be in favor of defining a secctx as the textual representation of a security blob. If we don't, we'll need to define a third thing that is the text representation for audit before it's possible to convert audit from SELinux calls to LSM calls. Converting audit to use LSM calls will be mostly straitforward if the secctx can be assumed to be a string.
Casey Schaufler
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