From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
david@lang.hm, Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Toshiharu Harada <haradats@nttdata.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce new LSM hooks where vfsmount is available.
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:20:01 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.1.10.0809240715340.31367@tundra.namei.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080923152053.GA6622@x200.localdomain>
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > > I don't see any technical errors in this patch.
> > > >
> > > > If it is going to be merged, please make a new config option for
> > > > path-based hooks (similar to that for the network hooks), so they can be
> > > > compiled out.
>
> Another pointless config option.
Why is it pointless? If distros don't want to use these hooks, they
shouldn't have to have them enabled.
>
> It's actually pretty surprising that SECURITY_NETWORK is
> a) user-visible and b) is not SECURITY && NET.
>
> Same for SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM.
IIRC, this option was a perquisite for merge. Networking hooks have a
relatively high overhead and not everyone wants to use them, even if they
have networking enabled.
- James
--
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-23 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <5fb14edc0809090902m32431bf6yf518a457e410764d@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20080910134540.45ec1272.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[not found] ` <48C877DE.4040402@nttdata.co.jp>
2008-09-17 2:16 ` Kentaro Takeda
2008-09-17 4:00 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-09-17 8:35 ` Kentaro Takeda
2008-09-17 17:46 ` david
2008-09-23 6:06 ` James Morris
2008-09-23 6:12 ` david
2008-09-23 15:02 ` Stephen Smalley
2008-09-23 15:20 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-09-23 21:20 ` James Morris [this message]
2008-09-24 8:00 ` Kentaro Takeda
2008-09-24 13:28 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-09-24 21:18 ` James Morris
2008-12-17 4:24 [PATCH] introduce " Kentaro Takeda
2008-12-17 4:42 ` Al Viro
2008-12-17 4:50 ` Al Viro
2008-12-17 5:06 ` Kentaro Takeda
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