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SubjectRe: kernel stack challenge
* Sergiy Lozovsky (serge_lozovsky@yahoo.com) wrote:
> No :-) What you suggest is kernel should receive
> system call from user space. Instead of handling it -
> kernel should forward it back to userspace, than it
> should be forwarded back to the kernel. Looks not very
> nice to me. Why not to handle security policy inside
> the kernel as it is done for the file permissions and
> root priveleges?

All this can be done w/out having a LISP interpretter coming along for the
ride, that's the point of the other posters. With LSM you have a
framework for implementing your own security model and enforcing your own
policies.

thanks,
-chris
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Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net
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