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author | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2009-05-04 16:05:23 +0200 |
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committer | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2009-05-04 16:05:23 +0200 |
commit | 8560b9321f9050968f393ce1ec67e47c1a0bd5cf (patch) | |
tree | 658ebb20e4fd5dee840f27103b59da367ff473b1 /Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt | |
parent | 72e31981a4e91f84c5b5e8994f5d25b1cf22b6cf (diff) | |
parent | 6574612fbb34c63117581e68f2231ddce027e41e (diff) |
Merge branch 'fix/asoc' into topic/asoc
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt index c78a49b7bba..748a1ae49e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ A NOTE ON SECURITY ================== CacheFiles makes use of the split security in the task_struct. It allocates -its own task_security structure, and redirects current->act_as to point to it +its own task_security structure, and redirects current->cred to point to it when it acts on behalf of another process, in that process's context. The reason it does this is that it calls vfs_mkdir() and suchlike rather than @@ -429,9 +429,9 @@ This means it may lose signals or ptrace events for example, and affects what the process looks like in /proc. So CacheFiles makes use of a logical split in the security between the -objective security (task->sec) and the subjective security (task->act_as). The -objective security holds the intrinsic security properties of a process and is -never overridden. This is what appears in /proc, and is what is used when a +objective security (task->real_cred) and the subjective security (task->cred). +The objective security holds the intrinsic security properties of a process and +is never overridden. This is what appears in /proc, and is what is used when a process is the target of an operation by some other process (SIGKILL for example). |