Thread (26 messages) 26 messages, 6 authors, 2022-08-09

Re: [RFC PATCH v8 10/17] block|security: add LSM blob to block_device

From: Deven Bowers <hidden>
Date: 2022-06-08 22:28:16
Also in: dm-devel, linux-block, linux-doc, linux-fscrypt, linux-integrity, lkml

On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 01:07:39PM -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote:
On 6/8/2022 12:01 PM, Deven Bowers wrote:
quoted
block_device structures can have valuable security properties,
based on how they are created, and what subsystem manages them.

By adding LSM storage to this structure, this data can be accessed
at the LSM layer.

Signed-off-by: Deven Bowers <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>

Not everyone is going to appreciate the infrastructure allocation
of the block_device security blob, but I do.
Thanks Casey.
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