Re: [RFC 0/28] Patches to pass vfsmount to LSM inode security hooks

On Monday 05 February 2007 10:44, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Just FYI:  Al was very opposed to the idea of passing the vfsmount to
> the vfs_ helpers, so you should discuss this with him.

The vfs_ helper functions are the ones calling the lsm hooks in many cases. 
Any lsm that makes pathname based decisions will need both the dentry and 
vfsmount for figuring out a file's pathname. I don't see a better way of 
passing that information to the lsm hooks than passing it through the vfs_ 
helpers.

Thanks,
Andreas
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