On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 08:15:55PM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 07:10:23PM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote: > > > Add support for setting security labels(e.g. smack or selinux labels) to > > > devtmpfs device nodes. In this manner, drivers can specify desired > > > security > > > label in their device_type->devnode or class->devnode method. > > > > What driver wants to do this? And how does it determine the proper > > security label from within the kernel? Isn't that something that only > > userspace can know/set properly? > Yes, It is possible by userspace, But This api change will help to set uid/gid > and xattr values easily without need of complex userspace scripts in absence > of > udev like helper.
If you want to do things like this, use a "complex" userspace script like Android has for their startup (hint, it's just a tiny bash script, nothing "complex" about it at all...) > And security label that decided as per each embedded system will be set by > this api in driver. Exactly how will that happen? I don't see any users of it. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
