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From: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
To: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: selinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, jamorris@linux.microsoft.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] security: add an interface to lookup the lockdown reason
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 10:45:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a11bfefc-c010-36ca-2303-35dcd4e9aa41@tycho.nsa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHC9VhS4ksmcqBMzwQDArgd9xn_cJ+nyEBrHJcYjoiMaFzCq-Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/10/19 10:04 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 9:59 AM Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
>> On 12/9/19 9:28 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
>>> With CONFIG_AUDIT enabled but CONFIG_SECURITY disabled we run into
>>> a problem where the lockdown reason table is missing.  This patch
>>> attempts to fix this by hiding the table behind a lookup function.
>>
>> Shouldn't lsm_audit.c be conditional on both CONFIG_AUDIT and
>> CONFIG_SECURITY?  When/why would we want it built without
>> CONFIG_SECURITY enabled?
> 
> My first thought of a fix was just that, but I remembered that the
> capabilities code is built regardless of the CONFIG_SECURITY setting
> and I thought there might be some value in allowing for lsm_audit to
> be used in commoncap (although in full disclosure commoncap doesn't
> currently make use of lsm_audit).

Seems contrary to normal practice, i.e. if/when commoncap grows a 
dependency, it can be changed then.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-10 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-10  2:28 [RFC PATCH] security: add an interface to lookup the lockdown reason Paul Moore
2019-12-10  5:39 ` James Morris
2019-12-10 14:59 ` Stephen Smalley
2019-12-10 15:04   ` Paul Moore
2019-12-10 15:45     ` Stephen Smalley [this message]
2019-12-10 15:58       ` Paul Moore
2019-12-10 16:20         ` Stephen Smalley
2019-12-10 16:50           ` Paul Moore

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