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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] /proc Security Hooks
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:38:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071017053826.GB28854@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071017051357.GA4515@roonstrasse.net>

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 07:13:57AM +0200, Max Kellermann wrote:
> On 2007/10/16 21:54, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:38:50 +0200
> > Max Kellermann <mk@cm4all.com> wrote:
> > > This patch attempts to unify duplicated code found in modules like
> > > Linux VServer.
> > 
> > can you please merge this patch only when you also merge the first
> > user
> > of it? That's the only way we can keep the LSM hooks sane... is to
> > see
> > them in thew conect of a user.
> 
> I wrote a module which uses this, but it's non-free and only used on
> my employer's servers.

How can a non-GPL module call the security_register() function?

Anyway, we don't/can't add hooks to the kernel for non-GPL code, that's
not allowed.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-17  5:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-16 19:38 [PATCH] /proc Security Hooks Max Kellermann
2007-10-16 19:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-17  5:13   ` Max Kellermann
2007-10-17  5:21     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-17  5:38     ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-10-16 20:20 ` Serge E. Hallyn

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