From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@wirex.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove sys_security
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:33:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021018173339.A7481@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210181830.28354.russell@coker.com.au>; from russell@coker.com.au on Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 06:30:28PM +0200
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 06:30:28PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> So how does it harm the mainline kernel to have a system call reserved for LSM
> and then not allow anything in the mainline kernel that uses it? Then we can
> deploy modules using the current LSM design without harming the mainline
> kernel.
IT adds infrastructure to implement syscalls without peer review.
End then it ends beeing crap like the selinux syscalls.
> The only code that we really want to see in the mainline kernel is the hooks
> for permission checks. Personally I would not mind if no security module
> ever gets included in Linus' source tree.
And exactly these hooks harm. They are all over the place, have performance
and code size impact and mess up readability. Why can't you just maintain
an external patch like i.e. mosix folks that nead similar deep changes?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-18 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-17 18:50 Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-17 18:53 ` Greg KH
2002-10-17 18:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-17 19:07 ` Greg KH
2002-10-17 20:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-17 20:10 ` Greg KH
2002-10-17 20:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-18 7:04 ` Crispin Cowan
2002-10-18 7:07 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-18 8:31 ` Crispin Cowan
2002-10-18 8:29 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-18 12:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-18 15:04 ` Greg KH
2002-10-19 2:05 ` Crispin Cowan
2002-10-18 7:11 ` Greg KH
2002-10-18 7:28 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-18 9:02 ` Crispin Cowan
2002-10-18 13:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-18 15:14 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2002-10-18 15:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-18 16:30 ` Russell Coker
2002-10-18 16:33 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-10-18 16:53 ` Greg KH
2002-10-18 16:54 ` Russell Coker
2002-10-18 17:15 ` Stephen Smalley
2002-10-18 22:36 ` Chris Wright
2002-10-21 13:54 ` Mike Wray
2002-10-21 14:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-21 16:44 ` Mike Wray
2002-10-21 17:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-18 20:36 ` David Wagner
2002-10-18 17:44 ` Stephen Smalley
2002-10-18 16:38 ` Russell Coker
2002-10-18 16:52 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-10-18 9:09 ` David Wagner
2002-10-18 10:14 ` Russell Coker
2002-10-18 12:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-17 20:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-17 21:00 ` Russell Coker
2002-10-17 21:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-17 21:37 ` Russell Coker
2002-10-17 21:49 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-17 22:14 ` Russell Coker
2002-10-17 22:22 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-10-23 0:35 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-10-23 11:43 ` Russell Coker
2002-10-23 11:59 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-10-23 14:27 ` Stephen Smalley
2002-10-23 14:54 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-10-23 16:09 ` Stephen Smalley
2002-10-23 16:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-23 16:34 ` Stephen Smalley
2002-10-23 16:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-23 16:51 ` Stephen Smalley
2002-10-24 6:26 ` Nathan Scott
2002-10-24 8:45 ` Russell Coker
2002-10-17 20:45 ` Russell Coker
2002-10-21 13:57 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-21 21:12 ` Crispin Cowan
2002-10-21 21:17 ` Greg KH
2002-10-22 12:22 ` Stephen Smalley
2002-10-17 20:20 ` Russell Coker
2002-10-17 20:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-17 20:28 ` Greg KH
2002-10-17 19:05 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-17 20:18 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-17 20:36 ` Greg KH
2002-10-17 20:38 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-17 20:58 ` Greg KH
2002-10-17 20:58 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-17 22:09 ` Greg KH
2002-10-17 22:07 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-17 22:19 ` Greg KH
2002-10-18 8:00 ` Crispin Cowan
2002-10-18 7:57 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-18 13:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-17 21:54 ` David Wagner
2002-10-17 22:36 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-17 23:04 ` Chris Wright
2002-10-17 23:08 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-18 14:24 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2002-10-17 22:51 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2002-10-17 22:51 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-18 17:47 ` Daniel Egger
2002-10-17 23:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-17 22:56 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-17 23:09 ` Greg KH
2002-10-17 23:10 ` Chris Wright
2002-10-17 23:10 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2002-10-18 13:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-17 23:11 ` Greg KH
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2002-10-18 9:25 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-18 9:36 ` Crispin Cowan
2002-10-18 9:44 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-18 9:55 ` Russell Coker
2002-10-18 10:13 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-18 17:24 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-18 11:43 ` Andreas Ferber
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2002-10-23 16:33 ` Andi Kleen
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