Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] LSM: security module information improvements | From | Casey Schaufler <> | Date | Fri, 28 Oct 2016 08:22:09 -0700 |
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On 10/28/2016 2:28 AM, James Morris wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Casey Schaufler wrote: > >> The 3/3 patch is forward looking, I'll admit. Userspace >> can start getting ready for the combined format in >> advance of multiple major modules. When complete module >> stacking patches are available I don't want to be addressing >> "no userspace is set up to handle that" if at all possible. >> I don't want to be Chicken or Egged to death. The attr/context >> would be the ideal thing for the id command to report, as >> the format would always be the same and identify the module(s). > We do not add speculative infrastructure to the kernel.
Fair enough. Development for the attr/context interface in userspace can be done out of tree.
There is support for the other two patches, and I would very much like to see them accepted.
> > There is no consensus that we need major module stacking, and some of the > technical issues (network secids, for example) are also as yet unresolved. > > > - James
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