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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] security: unconditionally call Yama
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:39:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120831223908.4aa5574d@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120831213126.GA19688@www.outflux.net>

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:31:26 -0700
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> Unconditionally call Yama, no matter what LSM module is selected.
> 
> Ubuntu and Chrome OS already carry patches to do this, and Fedora has
> voiced interest in doing this as well. Instead of having everyone carry
> these patches, just switch Yama to being unconditional when compiled
> into the kernel.

Not a good plan. What happens when everyone decides to stack every module
by ifdeffing in the kernel - mayhem. I'm all for it being possible but
done right - espeicall as I believe a proper proposal now for stacking
modules, and it should be done as part of that.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-31 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-31 21:31 Kees Cook
2012-08-31 21:39 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-08-31 22:49   ` Eric Paris
2012-08-31 23:59     ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-01  3:03       ` Eric Paris
2012-09-01  3:31         ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-01  3:42           ` Kees Cook
2012-09-01  4:05             ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-02  7:37             ` Jiri Kosina

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