# Re: \[PATCH 10/17\] selinux: Implement the watch\_key security hook \[ver \#5\]

- From: James Morris \<jmorris@namei.org\>
- Date: 2020-03-18 19:06:34 
- List: linux-security-module
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-security-module/2020/03/175566
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/keyrings/2020/03/175521/t.md

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On Wed, 18 Mar 2020, David Howells wrote:

> Implement the watch_key security hook to make sure that a key grants the
> caller View permission in order to set a watch on a key.
> 
> For the moment, the watch_devices security hook is left unimplemented as
> it's not obvious what the object should be since the queue is global and
> didn't previously exist.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <redacted>


Reviewed-by: James Morris <redacted>


-- 
James Morris
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