On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:

> Add a hook to invalidate an inode's security label when the cached
> information becomes invalid.
> 
> Implement the new hook in selinux: set a flag when a security label becomes
> invalid.  When hitting a security label which has been marked as invalid in
> inode_has_perm, try reloading the label.
> 
> If an inode does not have any dentries attached, we cannot reload its
> security label because we cannot use the getxattr inode operation.  In that
> case, continue using the old, invalid label until a dentry becomes
> available.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agrue...@redhat.com>


Reviewed-by: James Morris <james.l.mor...@oracle.com>

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