Re: XFS + RSBAC (fwd)


From: Amon Ott <ao@rsbac.org>
Subject: Re: XFS + RSBAC (fwd)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:23:49 +0200

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On Mit, 09 Mai 2001 K Mitchell Russell wrote:
> Here's what I found from my inquiry on the XFS mailing list regarding
> the XFS inodes and compatibility with RSBAC.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>
> To: K Mitchell Russell <kmrussel@hsc.vcu.edu>
> Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
> Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 14:00:27 -0500
> Subject: Re: XFS + RSBAC 
> > Finally, there is one part of the patch in RSBAC that is still FS
> > dependent, a secure delete function that patches the fs/ext2/namei.c
> > (for example) in ext2 by adding the following to ext2_unlink():
> > 
> > if(inode->i_nlink == 1)
> >   rsbac_sec_del(dentry);
> > 
> > Now they have only implemented this into ext2, vfat, dos, and minix
> > fs's, but would be nice for XFS integration as well. Where would such a
> > patch work, or does XFS have an interface for this?
> 
> linvfs_unlink in fs/xfs/linux/xfs_iops.c, you need to do it after the
> validate_fields() calls.

Mitchell, could you possibly put the call in there, test it and post a patch
here? This would save me from downloading, installing etc. of XFS.

Amon.
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