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. - To unsubscribe from the rsbac list, send a mail to majordomo@rsbac.org with unsubscribe rsbac as single line in the body.
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