[systemd-devel] [PATCH] SELINUX: add /sys/fs/selinux mount point to put selinuxfs

[Greg KH]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 03:55:24PM -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> On 5/10/2011 3:34 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>
> >
> > In the interest of keeping userspace from having to create new root
> > filesystems all the time, let's follow the lead of the other in-kernel
> > filesystems and provide a proper mount point for it in sysfs.
> >
> > For selinuxfs, this mount point should be in /sys/fs/selinux/
> 
> It seems that we might want this to be an LSM interface standard.
> Is the call to kobject_create_and_add and associated cleanup all
> that's required? I would want Smack to follow the convention as
> well.

You could always just create a subdir under /sys/security/ if you have
your own filesystem, but I don't think that Smack has one, right?

Is it going to get one?  If so, we might want to revisit the idea of
securityfs if no one is actually using it...

thanks,

greg k-h