PERFORCE change 20657 for review

Brian F. Feldman green at freebsd.org
Mon Nov 4 19:53:08 GMT 2002


Brian Feldman <green at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=20657
> 
> Change 20657 by green at green_laptop_2 on 2002/11/04 11:34:53
> 
> 	Be resilient to relabel operations on mac_lomac objects by
> 	always blanking the destination and copying the old label,
> 	but only if the new label "appears" internalized.

BTW, this really does apply to all policies, and needs to be documented as 
such.  Biba/MLS got it "not totally wrong" because they don't bzero the 
label they're overwriting, so in the case where there's nothing to copy they 
just overwrite nothing on the target label.

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