On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, KaiGai Kohei wrote:
> Remaining issues:
> - We have to mount securityfs explicitly, or use /etc/fstab.
> It can cause a matter when we want to use this feature on
> very early phase on boot. (like /sbin/init)
Why can't early userspace itself mount securityfs?
I'm not even sure this is a good idea at all. Existing capabilities will
never disappear, and, as with syscalls, it's probably up to userland to
handle new ones not existing.
In any case, some more technical issues:
> kernel/cap_names.sh generates the body of cap_entries[] array,
This needs to be in the scripts directory.
The generated header should be made idempotent (#ifdef wrapping), and also
include a warning that it is automatically generated (identifying the
script which does so), and that is should not be edited.
> + d_caps = securityfs_create_dir("capability", NULL);
> + if (!d_caps)
Wrong way to check for error -- the function returns an ERR_PTR().
> + f_caps[i] = securityfs_create_file(cap_entries[i].name, 0444,
> + d_caps, &cap_entries[i],
> + &cap_entry_fops);
> + if (!f_caps[i])
Ditto.
Another issue is that securityfs depends on CONFIG_SECURITY, which might
be undesirable, given that capabilities are a standard feature.
- James
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