Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Dec 2002 09:49:23 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] LSM fix for stupid "empty" functions |
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On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 12:17:54AM -0800, Crispin Cowan wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > >I'm _really_ tired of all of the "empty" functions that all security > >modules need to provide. So here's a brute force patch that lets any > >security module only set the functions that it wants to override. If > >the function is NULL, then the "dummy" function will be used instead. > > > Sounds good to me. So you're just creating a default null function, and > then stuffing all the stubs with a pointer to that function?
No, it uses the dummy_* function that matches that function type if you do not specify the function. Look at the definition of the set_to_dummy_if_null() macro for how it works.
thanks,
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