Re: [PATCH] ima: cleanup the match_token policy code

[Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 2018-12-18 at 01:33 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 04:36:54PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 4:14 PM Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Start the policy_tokens and the associated enumeration from zero,
> > > simplifying the pt macro.
> > 
> > I applied this directly, since I decided to just commit my own "don't
> > use negative Opt_err" patch for the test_and_set_bit() cases, and they
> > kind of go together.
> > 
> > There's still a -1 in security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c, and
> > there are also three cases of "Opt_error = -1" in the security layer.
> > 
> > All of which look pointless and wrong, but not actively buggy, so I'll
> > leave them alone.
> 
> FWIW, that part of LSM shite is getting taken out and shot - LSM-related
> preps in the beginning of mount API series are, at the moment, at
>  fs/btrfs/ctree.h           |   4 -
>  fs/btrfs/super.c           |  82 ++-------
>  fs/namespace.c             |   9 +-
>  fs/nfs/internal.h          |   2 +-
>  fs/nfs/super.c             |  34 ++--
>  fs/super.c                 |  23 +--
>  include/linux/lsm_hooks.h  |  17 +-
>  include/linux/security.h   |  82 ++-------
>  security/security.c        |  39 +++--
>  security/selinux/hooks.c   | 798 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------------------------------
>  security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 359 +++++++++++++++------------------------
>  11 files changed, 523 insertions(+), 926 deletions(-)
> and unlike the original variant there's not much touched in security/*
> further in the series...
> 
> No match_token() uses left in there after this part.

Could you expand on commit 5b2ea6199614 ("selinux: switch away from
match_token()") patch description.  All that it says is "It's not a
good fit, unfortunately, and the next step will make it even less so.
Open-code what we need here."  And there's even less for the
equivalent Smack patch, which just says "same issue as with
selinux...".

Mimi