Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:33:06 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: Time to remove LSM (was Re: [RESEND][RFC][PATCH 2/7] implementation of LSM hooks) |
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* Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 12:33:24PM -0400, James Morris wrote: > > The LSM interface is also being abused by several proprietary kernel > > modules, some of which are not even security related. In one case, > > there's code which dangerously revectors SELinux with a shim layer > > designed to try and bypass the GPL. Some of this is a response to > > unexporting the syscall table, where projects which abused that have now > > switched to LSM. > > I agree that this is happening today. Which makes me wonder, why is the > variable "security_ops" exported through "EXPORT_SYMBOL()" and not > "EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()"? It seems that people are taking advantage of > this and changing it would help slow them down a bit. > > Chris, would you take a patch to change this?
I don't see any reason not to. - 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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