Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Feb 2003 08:21:40 +0000 | From | 'Christoph Hellwig' <> | Subject | Re: [BK PATCH] LSM changes for 2.5.59 |
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On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 07:40:17PM -0800, Crispin Cowan wrote: > > Also unsupported: The "no-security" model -- where all security > >is thrown out (to save memory space and cycles) that was desired for embedded work. > > > False: capabilities is now a removable module, which is what Linus asked > for.
It's not. You put a bit of capability logic into a LSM module, but all the specific calls to capable are still around and turned into an LSM hook - often near another hook.
> >_\implemented\_ (team members & prjct lead Linda Walsh) to move all > >security checks out of the kernel into a 'default policy' module. > >The code to implement this was submitted to the LSM list in June 1991. > > > And I actually like that plan. But I still believe it to be too radical > for 2.6.
It's too later for 2.6 _now_. If you started doing this in early 2.5 we'd have a much less messy ACC architecture by now.
> It has many nice properties, but is much more invasive to the > kernel. I think it is a very interesting idea for 2.7, and should be > floated past the maintainers who will be impacted to see if it has a > hope in hell.
*nod* and until we get that gets implemented we should remove the current mess..
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