Re: extended file permissions based on LSM

Chris Wright (chris@wirex.com)
Sat, 31 Aug 2002 16:50:41 -0700

* Gabor Kerenyi (wom@tateyama.hu) wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm looking around the LSM module and I know it has got some
> functions for the filesystem part. Well, it looks good, but the
> permission thing is not enough. In fact it's enough to check
> the permission of an inode, but I'd like to check permissions
> for a dentry AND its inode at the same place and time.

We are anticipating VFS changes that include passing a dentry/vfsmount
pair to the permission check. This gives you both the inode as well as
the point in the tree the user is accessing the inode.

thanks,
-chris

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