Re: [PATCH 0/8] Security: Provide unioned file support

From	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 0/8] Security: Provide unioned file support
Date	2015-06-19 09:30 +0200
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On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 02:32:15PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> 
> The attached patches provide security support for unioned files where the
> security involves an object-label-based LSM (such as SELinux) rather than a
> path-based LSM.
> 
> The patches can be broken down into a number of sets:
> 
>  (1) A small patch to drop a lock earlier in overlayfs.  The main VFS patch
>      touches the same code, so I put this first.
> 
>  (2) The main VFS patch that makes an open file struct referring to a union
>      file have ->f_path point to the union/overlay file whilst ->f_inode and
>      ->f_mapping refer to the subordinate file that does the actual work.

#1 and #2 applied, will be in tomorrow vfs.git#for-next
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Re: [PATCH 0/8] Security: Provide unioned file support Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2015-06-19 09:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/8] Security: Provide unioned file support Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2015-06-19 10:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/8] Security: Provide unioned file support Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> - 2015-06-19 10:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/8] Security: Provide unioned file support Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2015-06-19 10:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/8] Security: Provide unioned file support Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> - 2015-06-19 10:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/8] Security: Provide unioned file support Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> - 2015-06-19 10:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/8] Security: Provide unioned file support David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2015-06-19 16:10 +0200

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