On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:20:11AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 08:00 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > I agree. In looking over the code some more, I'm trying to figure out > > why we are exporting that variable at all. Is it because of people > > wanting to stack security modules? > > > > I see selinux code using it, but you are always built into the kernel, > > right? So unexporting it would not be an issue to you. > > Various in-tree modules (e.g. ext3) call security hooks via the static > inlines and end up referencing security_ops directly. We'd have to wrap > all such hooks in the same manner as capable and permission. Ah, and people like making their file systems as modules :( > Although I was actually talking about eliminating security_ops, not just > un-exporting it ;) Yes, that would be even better, and solve some of the recent complaints that people have with the lsm interface. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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