From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Richard J Moore <richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com>
Cc: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>,
Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
S Vamsikrishna <vamsi_krishna@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.4 Ready list - Kernel Hooks
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:54:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021022235409.GC9498@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFD4366ECB.CE549043-ON80256C5A.007614F9@portsmouth.uk.ibm.com>
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:09:38AM +0100, Richard J Moore wrote:
> We created
> kernel hooks for exactly the same reasons that LSM needs hooks - to allow
> ancillary function to exist outside the kernel, to avoid kernel bloat, to
> allow more than one function to be called from a given call-back (think of
> kdb and kprobes - both need to be called from do_debug).
No, that is NOT the same reason LSM needs hooks! LSM hooks are there to
mediate access to various kernel objects, from within the kernel itself.
Please do not confuse LSM with any of the above projects.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-22 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-22 23:09 2.4 Ready list - Kernel Hooks Richard J Moore
2002-10-22 23:54 ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-10-23 15:28 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-10-23 16:21 ` Karim Yaghmour
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-24 16:38 Richard J Moore
2002-10-24 17:02 ` Greg KH
2002-10-23 16:47 Richard J Moore
2002-10-23 19:50 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-10-24 7:38 ` Vamsi Krishna S .
2002-10-24 17:22 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-10-23 8:10 Richard J Moore
2002-10-23 17:09 ` Greg KH
2002-10-21 12:24 Richard J Moore
2002-10-22 21:02 ` Werner Almesberger
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