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Re: [PATCH 08/14] NFSv4: Add label recommended attribute and NFSv4 flags
From: James Morris <jmorris_at_nospam>Date: Fri Apr 03 2009 - 11:43:15 GMT
To: "David P. Quigley" <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, David P. Quigley wrote:
> We tried to change this to be dynamically allocated based on what was
> coming off of the wire but we ran into a problem that it required us to
> do allocations where they really shouldn't be done in the rpc/nfsv4
> code. Trond suggested to make this static and that if someone really
> needed more than a page for their label that something was horrifically
> wrong. I'm tempted to agree with him on this but there are people trying
> to send contexts with an MLS component with every other compartment set
> which tend to be really large.
Well, future labels might include cryptographic information, for example. -- James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html