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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:47:36 +0200
From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
CC: Thomas Fricaccia <thomas_fricacci@yahoo.com>,
       Crispin Cowan <crispin@crispincowan.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       LSM ML <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: LSM conversion to static interface
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Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 07:24:42PM -0700, Thomas Fricaccia wrote:
>   
>> Yes, I think Crispin has succinctly summed it up:  irrevocably closing
>> the LSM prevents commercial customers from using security modules other
>> than that provided by their Linux distributor.
>>     
>
> Any "customer" using a security model other than provided by their Linux
> distributor instantly voided all support from that distro by doing that.
>
> So, since the support is gone, they can easily build their own kernels,
> with their own LSM interfaces, and get the exact same lack of support :)
>
>   

Running a vendor kernel has the advantage of reusing all the QA work 
that has gone into that kernel.  It is very different from running 
2.6.24-rc1 (or 2.6.22.x).  Hence projects like centos: you don't get any 
support, but the likelihood of actually requiring support is lower than 
running some random kernel.

[but I agree that someone who has somehow determined that they need a 
specific LSM will probably have determined that they need vendor support 
as well]

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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