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DateMon, 1 Oct 2007 13:28:21 -0700 (PDT)
FromCasey Schaufler <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel
--- Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> Anyways; if someone wants to cripple their security for some
> performance this way they can surely do this; but i don't think we should 
> offer it as a default configuration option (just as we don't have a 
> CONFIG_NULL_LSM even though there are undoubtedly systems that don't
> care about permission checking[1]) 
> 
> -Andi
> 
> [1] I bet I gave the linux-tiny crowd an idea now ;-)

You would need authoritative LSM hooks for this. The current LSM
additional restrictions model does not provide for this.


Casey Schaufler
casey@schaufler-ca.com
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