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From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] SELinux: remove redundant exports
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:20:08 +1100 (EST)
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To: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>, Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>, Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>, Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Audit-ML <linux-audit@redhat.com>, LSM-ML <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>
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On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:

> Remove the following exported SELinux interfaces:
> selinux_get_inode_sid(inode, sid)
> selinux_get_ipc_sid(ipcp, sid) 
> selinux_get_task_sid(tsk, sid)
> selinux_sid_to_string(sid, ctx, len)
> 
> They can be substitued with the following generic equivalents 
> respectively:
> new LSM hook, inode_getsecid(inode, secid)
> new LSM hook, ipc_getsecid*(ipcp, secid)
> LSM hook, task_getsecid(tsk, secid)
> LSM hook, sid_to_secctx(sid, ctx, len)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>

Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>


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