From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756504Ab1KRERQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:17:16 -0500 Received: from tundra.namei.org ([65.99.196.166]:48976 "EHLO tundra.namei.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756323Ab1KRERO (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:17:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:17:12 +1100 (EST) From: James Morris To: Kees Cook cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] security: Yama LSM In-Reply-To: <1319672956-17114-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> Message-ID: References: <1319672956-17114-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LRH 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, Kees Cook wrote: > As discussed at the Linux Security Summit, I'm resubmitting this > code. As an LSM, it has coherent policy around expanding specific DAC > behaviors. There is no need for it to be a full-blown MAC, since it is > not intended to be one, but rather to be a simplified expansion to DAC, > with system-wide knobs. See the specific patches for details... In principle, Yama can be merged, however there are features with unresolved upstream naks: - Handling symlinks in sticky directories - The ptrace tracker These still need to be resolved. -- James Morris