From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261671AbVFOV6w (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:58:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261617AbVFOVyt (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:54:49 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:6369 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261601AbVFOVxV (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:53:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:53:01 -0700 From: Chris Wright To: serue@us.ibm.com Cc: Chris Wright , James Morris , Reiner Sailer , LKML , LSM , Tom Lendacky , Greg KH , Emily Rattlif , Kylene Hall Subject: Re: [PATCH] 3 of 5 IMA: LSM-based measurement code Message-ID: <20050615215301.GQ9046@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> References: <1118846413.2269.18.camel@secureip.watson.ibm.com> <20050615204936.GA3517@serge.austin.ibm.com> <20050615205926.GP9046@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <20050615215019.GB3660@serge.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050615215019.GB3660@serge.austin.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * serue@us.ibm.com (serue@us.ibm.com) wrote: > Quoting Chris Wright (chrisw@osdl.org): > > The primary purpose of the hooks is access control. Some of them, of > > course, are helpers to keep labels coherent. IIRC, James objected > > because the measurement data was simply collected from these hooks. > > Ok, so to be clear, any module which does not directly impose some form > of access control is not eligible for an LSM? That's exactly the intention, yes. thanks, -chris