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From:   Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Date:   Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:56:14 -0400
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 8:11 AM Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 11:21:37PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:

...

> > This is one of the reasons why I usually like to see at least one LSM
> > implementation to go along with every new/modified hook.  The
> > implementation forces you to think about what information is necessary
> > to perform a basic access control decision; sometimes it isn't always
> > obvious until you have to write the access control :)
>
> I spoke to Frederick at length during LSS and as I've been given to
> understand there's a eBPF program that would immediately use this new
> hook. Now I don't want to get into the whole "Is the eBPF LSM hook
> infrastructure an LSM" but I think we can let this count as a legitimate
> first user of this hook/code.

Yes, for the most part I don't really worry about the "is a BPF LSM a
LSM?" question, it's generally not important for most discussions.
However, there is an issue unique to the BPF LSMs which I think is
relevant here: there is no hook implementation code living under
security/.  While I talked about a hook implementation being helpful
to verify the hook prototype, it is also helpful in providing an
in-tree example for other LSMs; unfortunately we don't get that same
example value when the initial hook implementation is a BPF LSM.

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