From: Seth Arnold <sarnold@wirex.com>
To: linux-security-module@wirex.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] LSM changes for 2.5.38
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 15:55:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021002225542.GA12637@wirex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021002193940.A16376@infradead.org>
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On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 07:39:40PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > It seems to me that you're arguing both sides here - first you say that
> > a full code audit is needed so you know 'WTF is going on', and then you're
> > saying that it's impossible to know.
>
> The person who performs the audit can know it. But how often will that be
> the author of the LSM module?
We've said on this list a few times that it is important for security
module authors to understand the implications of their decisions.
Deciding to not mediate module parameters is a valid decision. Deciding
to mediate module parameters is a valid decision. One requires very
little thought and sidesteps the matter entirely. The other requires
quite a bit of thought and is difficult to get right -- but that is not
a problem for LSM, per se; it is for the authors of security modules.
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http://immunix.org/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-02 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-27 4:32 [RFC] LSM changes for 2.5.38 Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-26 22:51 ` Greg KH
2002-09-27 16:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-27 16:55 ` Greg KH
2002-09-27 17:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-27 17:24 ` Greg KH
2002-09-27 12:09 ` Stephen Smalley
2002-09-27 16:34 ` Greg KH
2002-09-27 16:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-27 18:09 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2002-09-27 18:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-27 18:54 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2002-09-27 18:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-30 14:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2002-09-30 14:51 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-01 16:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-02 17:55 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2002-10-02 18:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-02 22:55 ` Seth Arnold [this message]
2002-10-02 23:07 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-27 19:00 ` Stephen Smalley
2002-10-01 17:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-30 9:08 ` Chris Wright
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2002-09-26 20:25 Greg KH
2002-09-26 20:26 ` Greg KH
2002-09-26 20:27 ` Greg KH
2002-09-26 20:28 ` Greg KH
2002-09-26 20:28 ` Greg KH
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