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Date:      Tue, 16 Jul 2002 09:44:08 -0400
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: PERFORCE change 14125 for review 
Message-ID:  <200207161344.g6GDi8678281@green.bikeshed.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:36:39 EDT." <200207151636.g6FGadD69438@green.bikeshed.org> 

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"Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > We probably need to sit down with the source, because I think this still
> > isn't right.  mac_update_vnode_from_externalized() is intended to take a
> > fully filled out extmac from the extended attribute, and initialize a
> > vnode label from it.  You've changed the code flow so that you call it
> > even when extmac doesn't contain any valid data, which is simply
> > incorrect.  Probably what we need is a new entry point intended
> > specifically to handle policies that manage the loading of the
> > externalized form themselves.  Something on the order of:
> > 
> > 	mac_update_vnode(vp);
> 
> I suppose adding that hook probably will be a solution, if not an elegant 
> one.  I'd rather it just not call it for policies that have no data but a 
> reserved data slow.
                slot

As in, policies that will not externalize/internalize directly with the MAC 
framework support, but rather their own.

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