On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 17:23 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:06:53PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > > I thought of this, see label_all_processes. Unfortunately I found no way of
> > > actually doing this. I would need to iterate through the tasklist structure,
> > > but the task_lock export is going to be removed from the kernel.
> >
> > So, if built-in isn't an option, propose an interface to the core
> > security framework to allow security modules to perform such
> > initialization without needing to directly touch the lock themselves
>
> NACK. The whole idea of loading security modules after bootup is flawed.
> Any scheme that tries to enumerate process and other entinity after the
> fact for access control purposes is fundamentally flawed. We're not going
> to add helpers or exports for it, I'd rather remove the ability to build
> lsm hook clients modular completely.
Or, better, remove LSM itself ;)
--
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency
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