Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Oct 2007 15:42:32 -0700 (PDT) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2 -mm] capabilities: define CONFIG_COMMONCAP |
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> >From 54c70ca7671750fe8986451fae91d42107d0ca90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> > Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:33:33 -0500 > Subject: [PATCH 1/2 -mm] capabilities: define CONFIG_COMMONCAP > > currently the compilation of commoncap.c is determined > through Makefile logic. So there is no single CONFIG > variable which can be relied upon to know whether it > will be compiled. > > Define CONFIG_COMMONCAP to be true when lsm is not > compiled in, or when the capability or rootplug modules > are compiled. These are the cases when commoncap is > currently compiled. Use this variable in security/Makefile > to determine commoncap.c's compilation. > > Apart from being a logic cleanup, this is needed by the > upcoming cap_bset patch so that prctl can know whether > PR_SET_BSET should be allowed. > > Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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