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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH} 2.6 and grsecurity
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:15:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040216181546.A22989@build.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402170134.i1H1YIAW016949@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>; from Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu on Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 08:34:17PM -0500

* Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu) wrote:
> Here's the patch, versioned against 2.6.3-rc3-mm1. Comments?

Aside of the dubious security value...the typical no #ifdefs apply here.

> +#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_RANDID
> +	if (security_enable_randid)
> +		id = ip_randomid();
> +	else
> +#endif

e.g. move the ifdef to header and move the if(enable) bit to ip_randomid().
ditto for all similar cases below.  it's not clear to me these are
particularly useful features though.

> + * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
> + *    must display the following acknowledgement:
> + *    This product includes software developed by Niels Provos.

Advertsing clause...this is not GPL compatible.

thanks,
-chris
-- 
Linux Security Modules     http://lsm.immunix.org     http://lsm.bkbits.net

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-17  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-17  1:34 Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-17  2:15 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2004-02-17  2:37   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-17  2:45     ` Chris Wright
2004-02-17  6:13     ` James Morris
2004-02-17  6:48       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-17 14:23 ` Martin Waitz
2004-02-17 14:53   ` Valdis.Kletnieks

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