Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:48:42 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cgroups: implement device whitelist lsm (v3) |
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On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:26:39AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: > > > The original promise was that LSM would allow kernels to be built that > > > shed capabilities altogether, > > > > I don't remember that, but it's been a long time so it could be true. > > "One of the explicit requirements to get LSM into the kernel was to have > the ability to make capabilities be a module. This allows the embedded > people to completely remove capabilities, as they really want this. I > don't think we can ignore this, no matter how much of a pain in the butt > it is :)" - Greg KH > > Quoted from: > http://marc.info/?l=linux-security-module&m=99236500727804&w=2 > > Ironically, since that time, capabilities have doubled in size and still > can't be removed from the core kernel since LSM didn't push the state > into the security blobs.
Maybe we need to seriously revisit this and perhaps rip capabilities back out and put it always into the kernel if it's always a requirement.
Comments made 7 years ago might be totally wrong when we have now learned how this all has worked out...
thanks,
greg k-h
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