Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754192Ab0HBQgL (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2010 12:36:11 -0400 Received: from smtp.outflux.net ([198.145.64.163]:53033 "EHLO smtp.outflux.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751102Ab0HBQgJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2010 12:36:09 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 09:36:02 -0700 From: Kees Cook To: Christian Stroetmann Cc: James Morris , linux-kernel , linux-security-module , linux-fsdevel Subject: Re: Preview of changes to the Security susbystem for 2.6.36 Message-ID: <20100802163602.GU3948@outflux.net> References: <20100802063224.GR3948@outflux.net> <20100802065746.GS3948@outflux.net> <4C569BCA.3050603@ontolinux.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C569BCA.3050603@ontolinux.com> Organization: Canonical X-HELO: www.outflux.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1088 Lines: 27 Hi Christian, On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:19:54PM +0200, Christian Stroetmann wrote: > But we discussed as well that the problem of chaining of small or > large LSMs is not an argument for the existence of the Yama LSM, and > that the LSM architecture should be developed further so that all of > the functionalities of other securtiy packages without an LSM can be > integrated as a whole by a new version of the LSM system in the > future and not by ripping them of like it was done with the Yama LSM > [3]. > You can see these objections [3] as a second NAK, but now from a > company's developer (I haven't said this before, because I'm not a > hard core kernel developer). I'm not sure I understand you, exactly. Are you saying that Yama should not exist because it might grow into a large LSM? -Kees -- Kees Cook Ubuntu Security Team -- 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/