Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:34:23 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] make security_ops EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() |
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On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:08:23AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Some closed source modules are taking advantage of the fact that the > > security_ops variable is available to them, so they are using it to hook > > into parts of the kernel that should only be available to "real" users > > of the LSM interface (which is required to be under the GPL.) > > I'm really not going to apply this. > > It's insane. > > "security_ops" is used by _anything_ that uses the inline functions in > <linux/security.h>, which suddenly means that a non-GPL module cannot use > _any_ of the standard security tests. That's insane.
Ah, doh, you are right, sorry about that.
> If people want to remove security_ops, that's fine (not for 2.6.17, but > assuming you guys can come to some reasonable agreement, at some later > date). But turning it into a GPL-only, but leaving all the infrastructure > requiring it is not.
Fair enough, I'll work toward removing security_ops so that it is no longer needed at all.
thanks,
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