Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:38:26 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
       linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] /proc Security Hooks
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 07:13:57AM +0200, Max Kellermann wrote:
> On 2007/10/16 21:54, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:38:50 +0200
> > Max Kellermann <mk@cm4all.com> wrote:
> > > This patch attempts to unify duplicated code found in modules like
> > > Linux VServer.
> > 
> > can you please merge this patch only when you also merge the first
> > user
> > of it? That's the only way we can keep the LSM hooks sane... is to
> > see
> > them in thew conect of a user.
> 
> I wrote a module which uses this, but it's non-free and only used on
> my employer's servers.

How can a non-GPL module call the security_register() function?

Anyway, we don't/can't add hooks to the kernel for non-GPL code, that's
not allowed.

thanks,

greg k-h
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