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From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH security-next v3 04/29] LSM: Remove initcall tracing
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 9:35 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 17:18:07 -0700
> Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> This partially reverts commit 58eacfffc417 ("init, tracing: instrument
>> security and console initcall trace events") since security init calls
>> are about to no longer resemble regular init calls.
>
> I'm not against the change, but how much are they going to "no longer
> resemble regular init calls"?

My take on "regular" init calls is that they're always run, link-time
ordered, etc. The changes proposed here will make it so not all
initialization are run depending on runtime configurations, ordering
will be flexible, etc.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security