Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030334AbVJETcF (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:32:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030339AbVJETcF (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:32:05 -0400 Received: from mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net ([69.17.117.27]:57807 "EHLO mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030335AbVJETcE (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:32:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:31:59 -0400 (EDT) From: James Morris X-X-Sender: jmorris@excalibur.intercode To: David Howells cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , keyrings@linux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Smalley Subject: Re: [Keyrings] [PATCH] Keys: Add LSM hooks for key management In-Reply-To: <30441.1128530889@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <29942.1128529714@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <30441.1128530889@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 990 Lines: 31 On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, David Howells wrote: > > Any reason why this is configurable? > > Well, I saw that the network stuff was. I can make it non-configurable. > > > Why wouldn't someone want this? > > Speed/latency? But I suppose that's not really a factor. Yes, the networking is for performance, especially from when we used to register Netfilter hooks from within LSM. I don't know of any distros that enable LSM but disable networking so we should probably think about removing that as well. > What about the security ops for keys that I've made available? Does doing it > that way seem reasonable? Not sure yet, need to spend some time looking at this from an SELinux point of view. - James -- James Morris - 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/