[PATCH 1/1] cr: lsm: restore LSM contexts for ipc objects

[James Morris]

On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:

> Here is the next version of the patch implementing checkpoint
> and restore of LSM contexts.  This is just handling IPC objects
> as a proof of concept.  But actually, looking ahead and both
> files and tasks, I see that selinux stores several sids in the
> security structs.  For instance, for tasks there is the current
> sid, exec sid, create sid, keycreate_sid, and sockcreate_sid.
> So I guess I'll have to ask the LSM for how many secids it wants
> to checkpoint, then checkpoint an array of contexts?
> 

Can you please explain exactly what checkpoint/restart is?

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James Morris
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