Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752610AbZIWPwB (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:52:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751338AbZIWPwA (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:52:00 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:63583 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750776AbZIWPv7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:51:59 -0400 Subject: Re: fanotify as syscalls From: Eric Paris To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin , Davide Libenzi , Andreas Gruenbacher , Jamie Lokier , Linus Torvalds , Evgeniy Polyakov , David Miller , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk" , "alan@linux.intel.com" , "hch@infradead.org" In-Reply-To: <20090923133232.5577688d@infradead.org> References: <20090912094110.GB24709@ioremap.net> <200909221731.34717.agruen@suse.de> <200909230939.34003.tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com> <20090923133232.5577688d@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:51:37 -0400 Message-Id: <1253721097.2890.3.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1060 Lines: 24 On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 13:32 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:39:33 +0100 > Tvrtko Ursulin wrote: > > > Lived with it because there was no other option. We used LSM while it > > was available for modules but then it was taken away. > > ... at which point you could have submitted your LSM module for > inclusion... you'd be the first (and only?) Anti Virus vendor that > would be in the mainline kernel.. speaking of competitive advantage, > coming out of the box in all distributions. And users would be left in a situation between choosing an LSM which actually does in provable ways increase security and using an AV scanner. Until magic solves the LSM stacking problem (it's been tried, no magic) I don't think any distro wants AV vendors as LSMs. -Eric -- 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/