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From: Olaf Dietsche <olaf.dietsche#list.linux-kernel@t-online.de>
To: James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, <linux-security-module@wirex.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] LSM fix for stupid "empty" functions
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 19:46:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873cph37dh.fsf@goat.bogus.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Mutt.LNX.4.44.0212020441560.19785-100000@blackbird.intercode.com.au

James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au> writes:

> On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Greg KH wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:59:10PM +0100, Olaf Dietsche wrote:
>> > >  	VERIFY_STRUCT(struct security_operations, ops, err);
>> > 
>> > This shouldn't be necessary anymore.
>> 
>> Good point, I'll remove it.  It was a hack anyway :)
>> 
>
> I think we still want to make sure that the module author has explicitly
> accounted for all of the hooks, in case new hooks are added.

VERIFY_STRUCT() now verifies, wether security_fixup_ops() has done its
job. So it does no harm, but it is useless, nevertheless.

If you want to check, wether a module has been recompiled, you should
add a length/sizeof(struct security_operations) parameter.

Regards, Olaf.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-01 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-01  8:30 [RFC] LSM fix for stupid "empty" functions Greg KH
2002-12-01  8:17 ` Crispin Cowan
2002-12-01 17:49   ` Greg KH
2002-12-01 16:59 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-12-01 18:12   ` Greg KH
2002-12-01 17:21     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-12-01 18:26       ` Greg KH
2002-12-03  2:37         ` Dragan Stancevic
2002-12-03 16:01           ` Greg KH
2002-12-03 15:14             ` Dragan Stancevic
2002-12-01 17:46     ` James Morris
2002-12-01 18:46       ` Olaf Dietsche [this message]
2002-12-01 20:05         ` Greg KH
2002-12-01 19:25       ` Greg KH
2002-12-02  2:00         ` James Morris
2002-12-02  6:57           ` Greg KH
2002-12-03  8:04             ` James Morris
2002-12-04  0:13 ` [RFC] LSM fix for stupid "empty" functions - take 2 Greg KH
2002-12-04  8:14   ` Chris Wright
2002-12-04 23:00     ` Greg KH
2002-12-04 23:44       ` Chris Wright
2002-12-05  0:09   ` James Morris
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-01 18:57 [RFC] LSM fix for stupid "empty" functions Adam J. Richter

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