From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@gmail.com>
Cc: serge.hallyn@canonical.com,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, josh@joshtriplett.org,
peterz@infradead.org, mhocko@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: Conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:52:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150121145219.446d360c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150120233308.GA6256@winterfell>
On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 01:33:08 +0200
Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are a lot of embedded systems that run most or all of their functionality
> in init, running as root:root. For these systems, supporting multiple users is
> not necessary.
We probably shouldn't encourage such poor design ;-)
The proposed patch generates a whole mass of ifdefs all over the place.
If it's going to be done move all the functions in question together
somewhere logical and give them a single ifdef or a file of their own.
It also doesn't appear to be dropping all it should - why can't you
simply not compile in groups.c for example ? If you can't then it says
the patch is far from complete at this point.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-21 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-20 23:33 Iulia Manda
2015-01-21 0:05 ` Casey Schaufler
2015-01-21 0:50 ` Josh Triplett
2015-01-21 1:23 ` Casey Schaufler
2015-01-21 5:08 ` Josh Triplett
2015-01-21 14:52 ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]
2015-01-21 16:31 ` josh
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