Any comments on these patches? I know Casey voiced some concerns about them the first time I posted them but I believe I have adequately addressed them.
Dave On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 15:06 -0400, David P. Quigley wrote: > This patch series addresses two concerns. Currently when a developer > wishes to obtain a security blob from the LSM he/she has to guess at the > length of the blob being returned. We modify security_inode_getsecurity > to return an appropriately sized buffer populated with the security > information and the length of that buffer. This is similar to the > approach taken by Al Viro for the security_getprocattr hook. > > The second concern that this patch set addresses is that vfs_getxattr > reads the security xattr using inode_getxattr and then proceeds to > clobber it with a subsequent call to the LSM. This is fixed by > reordering vfs_getxattr. > > The series applies on top of 2.6.23 aka git hash > bbf25010f1a6b761914430f5fca081ec8c7accd1 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-security-module" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
