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From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Security Modules List 
	<linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] security: remove security_sb_post_mountroot hook
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:07:05 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Xine.LNX.4.64.0712301606001.19117@us.intercode.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200712300020.lBU0KPcr010209@tazenda.hos.anvin.org>

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


-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-30  5:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-30  0:20 H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-30  0:29 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-12-30  5:07 ` James Morris [this message]

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