[PATCH] Smack: Handle io_uring kernel thread privileges.

Jens Axboe axboe at kernel.dk
Tue Dec 22 02:05:01 UTC 2020


On 12/17/20 6:12 PM, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> Smack assumes that kernel threads are privileged for smackfs
> operations. This was necessary because the credential of the
> kernel thread was not related to a user operation. With io_uring
> the credential does reflect a user's rights and can be used.

Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>

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Jens Axboe



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