[Labeled-nfs] [PATCH 4/7] Security: Add secctx_to_secid LSM hooks and security helper functions

Casey Schaufler casey at schaufler-ca.com
Wed Aug 1 17:11:27 EDT 2007


--- "David P. Quigley" <dpquigl at tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:

> From: David P. Quigley <dpquigl at tycho.nsa.gov>
> 
> The existing LSM interface provides a hook for converting a security
> identifier
> to a security context. This patch introduces a complementary hook to provide
> the conversion from the security context to corresponding security
> identifier.

This is strictly SELinux behavior. I don't suppose it hurts
anything, but a general framework won't need this.

> Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <dpquigl at tycho.nsa.gov>
> 

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Casey Schaufler
casey at schaufler-ca.com


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