Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751708AbXJUW7Z (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:59:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750937AbXJUW7S (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:59:18 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:39759 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750872AbXJUW7R (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:59:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:59:46 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: James Morris Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Linus Torvalds , Andreas Gruenbacher , Thomas Fricaccia , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: LSM conversion to static interface Message-ID: <20071021225946.GF30533@stusta.de> References: <167451.96128.qm@web38607.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200710192226.53233.agruen@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1653 Lines: 49 On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 08:57:06AM +1000, James Morris wrote: > On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > >I'd like to note that I asked people who were actually affected, and had > > >examples of their real-world use to step forward and explain their use, > > >and that I explicitly mentioned that this is something we can easily > > >re-visit. > > > > I do have a pseudo LSM called "multiadm" at > > http://freshmeat.net/p/multiadm/ , quoting: > > Based on Linus' criteria, this appears to be a case for reverting the > static LSM patch. >... If you take it that strictly, the in-kernel root_plug LSM could have been considered enough reason for reverting... The interesting question is IMHO still: Were Greg and Jan the only people to write such LSMs, or how many non-abusive users that make sense as modules do really exist after 5 years? Either you can count such real-world users with your fingers or there's a reason why these modules didn't get included. IOW: Either the API has proven to not attract enough modular users or we are having a to-be-fixed problem with getting the LSMs submitted and included. > - James cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/