Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759538AbYGBMaO (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:30:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751014AbYGBMaA (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:30:00 -0400 Received: from mummy.ncsc.mil ([144.51.88.129]:60924 "EHLO mummy.ncsc.mil" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751127AbYGBM37 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:29:59 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch] security: fix dummy xattr functions From: Stephen Smalley To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: jmorris@namei.org, jjohansen@suse.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, serue@us.ibm.com, morgan@kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1214999316.22447.240.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: National Security Agency Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:28:16 -0400 Message-Id: <1215001696.22447.268.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-5.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 837 Lines: 24 On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 13:54 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Wed, 02 Jul 2008, Stephen Smalley wrote: > > As discussed elsewhere, the dummy module just needs to die, and > > capability needs to become the default module. > > How hard would that be to do in your opinion? > > It would help some if we didn't have to update the dummy module with > the changes required by apparmor. It shouldn't be difficult (famous last words ;). And the LSM maintainer already said he was ok with it, http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121311583732168&w=2 -- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency -- 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/