Re: [PATCH] securityfs

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:44:19PM -0500, serue@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Quoting Greg KH (greg@kroah.com):
> > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 05:46:04PM -0500, serge@hallyn.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > With the obvious fix, that does in fact work (patch appended).
> > 
> > Good.
> > 
> > > The __simple_attr_check_format problem remains however.  I assume we
> > > don't really want to just take it out, though, like this patch does?
> > 
> > No we do not.
> > 
> > > The error I get without the fs.h patch is:
> > > 
> > > security/seclvl.c: In function `seclvl_file_ops_open':
> > > security/seclvl.c:186: warning: int format, different type arg (arg 2)
> > 
> > Care to work to try to fix it up?
> 
> Once again, the simple_attr in libfs was actually sufficient - I'd
> thought the __attribute__(format(printk(1,2))) was more mysterious than
> it really is.
> 
> At last, here is the full patch to make seclvl use securityfs.
> 
> thanks,
> -serge
> 
> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
> --
>  seclvl.c |  228 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------------------
>  1 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 158 deletions(-)

Very nice, it's always good to end up removing lines of code :)

thanks for verifying that it all works properly.

Chris, care to forward the securityfs patch to Linus?

thanks,

greg k-h
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