Re: [PATCH] security: remove security_sb_post_mountroot hook

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> The security_sb_post_mountroot() hook is long-since obsolete, and is
> fundamentally broken: it is never invoked if someone uses initramfs.
> This is particularly damaging, because the existence of this hook has
> been used as motivation for not using initramfs.
> 
> Stephen Smalley confirmed on 2007-07-19 that this hook was originally
> used by SELinux but can now be safely removed:
> 
>      http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118485683612916&w=2

Thanks.

Applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6.git#for-akpm


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