On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Stephen Smalley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/26/2015 05:15 PM, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: >> >> Use path_has_perm directly instead. > > > This reverts: > > commit 13f8e9810bff12d01807b6f92329111f45218235 > Author: David Howells <[email protected]> > Date: Thu Jun 13 23:37:55 2013 +0100 > > SELinux: Institute file_path_has_perm() > > Create a file_path_has_perm() function that is like path_has_perm() but > instead takes a file struct that is the source of both the path and the > inode (rather than getting the inode from the dentry in the path). This > is then used where appropriate. > > This will be useful for situations like unionmount where it will be > possible to have an apparently-negative dentry (eg. a fallthrough) that > is > open with the file struct pointing to an inode on the lower fs. > > Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]> > > which I think David was intending to use as part of his SELinux/overlayfs > support.
Okay. As long as overlayfs support in SELinux is in half-finished state, let's leave this alone. Thanks, Andreas -- 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
