Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:49:48 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel |
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On Sep 30 2007 01:16, Andrew Morton wrote: >> >> Documentation/Smack.txt | 104 + >> security/Kconfig | 1 >> security/Makefile | 2 >> security/smack/Kconfig | 10 >> security/smack/Makefile | 9 >> security/smack/smack.h | 207 ++ >> security/smack/smack_access.c | 345 ++++ >> security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 2685 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> security/smack/smackfs.c | 1201 ++++++++++++++ >> 9 files changed, 4564 insertions(+) > >My major non-technical concern is that Casey Schaufler might get hit by a >bus. If this happens, we can remove the feature in three minutes (that >diffstat again), but that may not be feasible if people have come to rely >upon the feature. > >otoh, if a significant number of people are using smack, presumably someone >else would step up to maintain smack post-bus. The risk seems acceptable >to me.
I bet that the number of people submitting patches / possibly maintaining it is hyperbelic to the code size. Everyone that runs away from selinux's code size and/or "complexity" is a potential smack/aa user/contributor.
>Is smack useful without a patched ls, sshd and init.d? What is the status >of getting those userspace patches merged? ie: do you know who to send the >diffs to, and are they likely to take them?
As long as one does not need to recompile userspace (like it is the case with libselinux), it wins. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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