Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764566AbYCDRVv (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:21:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763384AbYCDRV1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:21:27 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35019 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764133AbYCDRV0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:21:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:21:19 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: "Ahmed S. Darwish" cc: Casey Schaufler , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH BUGFIX -rc3] Smack: Don't register smackfs if we're not loaded In-Reply-To: <20080304131055.GA25577@ubuntu> Message-ID: References: <20080304131055.GA25577@ubuntu> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) 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: 572 Lines: 18 On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > > Smackfs initialization without an enabled Smack leads to > an early Oops that renders the system unusable. I really think this is bogus. Global enables like this are just wrong, and a sign that something else bad is going on. What is the oops? Why does it happen? Linus -- 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/