Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 01:42:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 01:42:39 -0500 Received: from mithra.wirex.com ([65.102.14.2]:62478 "EHLO mail.wirex.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 01:42:37 -0500 Message-ID: <3E4B40A2.70509@wirex.com> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 22:52:18 -0800 From: Crispin Cowan Organization: WireX Communications, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pete Zaitcev Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Security Module Subject: Re: What went wrong with LSM, was: Re: [BK PATCH] LSM changes for 2.5.59 References:

<200302130512.h1D5CY909638@devserv.devel.redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.65.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig1AEF42F56837A86C1104196A" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4186 Lines: 87 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1AEF42F56837A86C1104196A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Pete Zaitcev wrote: >I used to be super irritated by separate lists. Now I'm a member >of linux-usb-devel, uml-devel, sparclinux, and god knows what else. >Yes, they are unavoidable. Still, it is important to keep linux-kernel >at least somewhat informed. IMHO. > LKML was kept at least somewhat informed, IMHO: * LSM announced April 11, 2001 * Should there be separate lists for module development? o Probably * Discussion of the "DAC-out" design option appears in LKML July 12, 2001 * LSM entangled in discussion of whether binary-only modules should be permitted, September 24, 2001 * Syscall 223 provisionally reserved for LSM * LSM mentioned as related to extended attributes project * Does LSM conflict with accessfs? January 16, 2002 o No, it does not * LSM in Guillaume's big list of 2.5 stuff, January 23, 2002 * LSM in Marc-Christian Petersen's forked kernel, May 21, 2002 * LSM interfacing to extended attributes, June 28, 2002 * First LSM patch into Linus' tree, July 16, 2002 o There are lots of these subsequently, so I won't cite them all * Racing with module load/unload affects LSM too, September 12, 2002 * HCH takes issue with LSM, September 26, 2002 * LSM hook style changes from low-cost hooks to no-cost configurable hooks, October 16, 2002 * LSM and GPL requirement for modules, October 17, 2002 * Remove the LSM sys_security call, October 17, 2002 * LSM changed so that module does not have to provision every hook by providing a default action, December 1, 2002 * The start of this flame-war, February 5, 2002 Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX http://wirex.com/~crispin/ Recruiting for Linux kernel and glibc developers: http://immunix.org/jobs.html --------------enig1AEF42F56837A86C1104196A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+S0Cp5ZkfjX2CNDARAe0nAJ9ixUs7kUpZrQ7Xj0tBtC0L/nlVagCdHvDh S6qybwjd1ft7VerjP+ZXvmk= =g8Z9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1AEF42F56837A86C1104196A-- - 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/