Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753315AbXL3FHj (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:07:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750847AbXL3FHa (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:07:30 -0500 Received: from namei.org ([69.55.235.186]:50071 "EHLO us.intercode.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750820AbXL3FH3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:07:29 -0500 Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:07:05 +1100 (EST) From: James Morris X-X-Sender: jmorris@us.intercode.com.au To: "H. Peter Anvin" cc: Chris Wright , Andrew Morton , Stephen Smalley , Eric Paris , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Security Modules List Subject: Re: [PATCH] security: remove security_sb_post_mountroot hook In-Reply-To: <200712300020.lBU0KPcr010209@tazenda.hos.anvin.org> Message-ID: References: <200712300020.lBU0KPcr010209@tazenda.hos.anvin.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 882 Lines: 26 On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > The security_sb_post_mountroot() hook is long-since obsolete, and is > fundamentally broken: it is never invoked if someone uses initramfs. > This is particularly damaging, because the existence of this hook has > been used as motivation for not using initramfs. > > Stephen Smalley confirmed on 2007-07-19 that this hook was originally > used by SELinux but can now be safely removed: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118485683612916&w=2 Thanks. Applied to git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6.git#for-akpm -- 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/