On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, David Howells wrote:
> James Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > + u32 (*inode_get_secid)(struct inode *inode);
> >
> > To maintain API consistency, please return an int which only acts as an
> > error code, and returning the secid via a *u32 function parameter.
>
> Does that apply to *all* the functions, irrespective of whether or not they
> return an error?
LSM is theoretically an API, so we generally don't know if a security
module will return an error or not.
If they were simply calls directly into SElinux, where we could always
know the semantics, then that would be a different story.
- James
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