Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] vfs: Allow filesystems with foreign owner IDs to override UID checks

Mimi Zohar <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:35:24 -0400

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Hi David,

On Tue, 2026-07-28 at 15:13 +0100, David Howells wrote:
>=20
>  (*) IMA policy ops.
>=20
>      Unchanged for now.  I'm not sure what the best way to deal with this
>      is - if, indeed, it needs any changes.

IMA policy rules may be written in terms of the uid, euid and fowner.  Any
changes, if necessary, would need to be made to ima_match_rules().

Mimi