[PATCH 5/5] sysctl: Hide the sysctl proc inodes from selinux.

2007-02-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Since the security checks are applied on each read and write of a sysctl file, just like they are applied when calling sys_sysctl, they are redundant on the standard VFS constructs. Since it is difficult to compute the security labels on the standard VFS constructs we just mark the sysctl inodes

[PATCH 5/5] sysctl: Hide the sysctl proc inodes from selinux.

2007-02-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Since the security checks are applied on each read and write of a sysctl file, just like they are applied when calling sys_sysctl, they are redundant on the standard VFS constructs. Since it is difficult to compute the security labels on the standard VFS constructs we just mark the sysctl inodes