A Plumber's Wish List for Linux

Posted Oct 7, 2011 22:13 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: A Plumber's Wish List for Linux by dpquigl
Parent article: A Plumber's Wish List for Linux

Easy. xattrs allow cgroups to be labeled for use with SELinux.

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A Plumber's Wish List for Linux

Posted Oct 7, 2011 22:17 UTC (Fri) by dpquigl (guest, #52852) [Link] (1 responses)

Those aren't user xattrs though. The user. xattr namespace is unprivileged. The SMACK and SELinux xattrs are in the security. namespace.

A Plumber's Wish List for Linux

Posted Oct 7, 2011 23:30 UTC (Fri) by dpquigl (guest, #52852) [Link]

Its worth noting that procfs supports the security name space but cgroupfs doesn't yet. cgroupfs security xattr support should be implemented in the same way that the sysfs xattr support is done instead of proc.