On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:04:23AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> The reason why I want to access namespace_sem inside security_inode_create() is that
> it doesn't receive "struct vfsmount" parameter.
> If "struct vfsmount" *were* passed to security_inode_create(),
> I have no need to access namespace_sem.
Same argument as with the AA folks: it does not have any business looking
at the vfsmount. If you create a file it can and in many setups will
show up in multiple vfsmounts, so making decisions based on the particular
one this creat happens through is wrong and actually dangerous.
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