Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:08:23 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] make security_ops EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() |
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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.
And there's no point to this patch. The "explanation" I have seen so far is that some strange root-kit could take over the security ops. That's just crazy talk. If you're a root-kit, would you care about the copyright license? No. So this patch just makes zero sense from any standpoint.
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.
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