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

[Greg KH]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 01:22:42PM +0200, John Johansen wrote:
> On 05/11/2011 03:59 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > 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...
> > 
> resending, as this looks to have been lost
> 
> AppArmor, IMA, and TOMOYO are using securityfs currently.

Great, then it will not go anywhere.

greg k-h