On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, David P. Quigley wrote:

> This patch modifies the interface to inode_getsecurity to have the function
> return a buffer containing the security blob and its length via parameters
> instead of relying on the calling function to give it an appropriately sized
> buffer. Security blobs obtained with this function should be freed using the
> release_secctx LSM hook. This alleviates the problem of the caller having to
> guess a length and preallocate a buffer for this function allowing it to be
> used elsewhere for Labeled NFS. The patch also removed the unused err
> parameter. The conversion is similar to the one performed by Al Viro for the
> security_getprocattr hook.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Acked-by: James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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