From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, joq@io.com, torbenh@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Realtime LSM
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:03:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1095015830.1306.640.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Xine.LNX.4.44.0409120956150.16684-100000@thoron.boston.redhat.com>
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 09:58, James Morris wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > +config SECURITY_REALTIME
> > + tristate "Realtime Capabilities"
> > + depends on SECURITY && SECURITY_CAPABILITIES!=y
> > + default n
> > + help
> > + Answer M to build realtime support as a Linux Security
> > + Module. Answering Y to build realtime capabilities into the
> > + kernel makes no sense.
>
> Why not just make it a bool then?
>
Good idea.
> I wonder if it might be better to specify configuration via
> /proc/<pid>/attr rather than module parameters.
>
This would not work for several reasons. How would you decide who is
allowed to run RT processes? Root would have to set the above value,
which defeats the purpose of the realtime-lsm module which is to
selectively allow non-root users to run RT tasks.
Here is a good summary of the security issues that have been raised:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=269661
Realtime-lsm solves all of these problems.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-12 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-12 5:46 [PATCH] Realtime LSM Lee Revell
2004-09-12 13:58 ` James Morris
2004-09-12 14:05 ` James Morris
2004-09-12 19:03 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-09-12 19:16 ` Jack O'Quin
2004-09-16 2:31 ` Jody McIntyre
2004-09-16 4:48 ` Jack O'Quin
2004-09-16 15:51 ` Jody McIntyre
2004-09-16 18:27 ` Jack O'Quin
2004-09-17 7:08 ` torbenh
2004-09-17 20:01 ` Jack O'Quin
2004-09-20 20:20 ` Jody McIntyre
2004-09-12 15:50 ` Kronos
2004-09-13 23:22 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-13 23:34 ` Chris Wright
2004-09-14 2:18 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-14 3:01 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 3:46 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-14 3:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-20 20:23 ` Jody McIntyre
2004-09-21 0:11 ` Jack O'Quin
2004-09-21 7:52 ` torbenh
2004-09-30 21:14 ` Jody McIntyre
2004-09-30 21:53 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-01 0:37 ` Jack O'Quin
2004-10-01 1:20 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-01 4:05 ` Jack O'Quin
2004-10-01 20:40 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-01 21:23 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-01 22:19 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-01 22:27 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-01 22:32 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-01 22:44 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-05 5:55 ` Jack O'Quin
2004-10-07 23:51 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-08 20:58 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-08 21:21 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-08 21:22 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-08 21:25 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-08 21:45 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-08 21:49 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-08 21:52 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-08 22:05 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-08 22:09 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-08 22:19 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-08 22:24 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-08 23:05 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-08 23:12 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-08 23:15 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-08 23:20 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-09 1:01 ` Jack O'Quin
2004-10-09 5:16 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-09 16:16 ` Jack O'Quin
2004-10-09 19:11 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-09 20:27 ` Jack O'Quin
2004-10-09 22:53 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-22 23:59 ` Jack O'Quin
2004-10-23 0:36 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-23 1:23 ` Jack O'Quin
2004-10-23 1:27 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-23 5:08 ` Jack O'Quin
2004-10-23 18:17 ` Jack O'Quin
2004-10-25 2:03 ` Jack O'Quin
2004-10-23 20:04 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-05 4:00 ` Jack O'Quin
2004-10-15 1:55 ` Rusty Russell
2004-10-15 2:08 ` Lee Revell
[not found] <87acu0p0nw.fsf@sulphur.joq.us>
2004-11-09 22:39 ` Jack O'Quin
2004-11-20 2:44 ` Lee Revell
2004-11-20 3:55 ` Lee Revell
2004-11-20 6:19 ` Jack O'Quin
2004-11-20 6:43 ` Lee Revell
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