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From: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
To: Christian Stroetmann <stroetmann@ontolinux.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-security-module <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Preview of changes to the Security susbystem for 2.6.36
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 09:36:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100802163602.GU3948@outflux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C569BCA.3050603@ontolinux.com>

Hi Christian,

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:19:54PM +0200, Christian Stroetmann wrote:
> But we discussed as well that the problem of chaining of small or
> large LSMs is not an argument for the existence of the Yama LSM, and
> that the LSM architecture should be developed further so that all of
> the functionalities of other securtiy packages without an LSM can be
> integrated as a whole by a new version of the LSM system in the
> future and not by ripping them of like it was done with the Yama LSM
> [3].
> You can see these objections [3] as a second NAK, but now from a
> company's developer (I haven't said this before, because I'm not a
> hard core kernel developer).

I'm not sure I understand you, exactly. Are you saying that Yama should not
exist because it might grow into a large LSM?

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-02 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-30  8:59 Preview of changes to the Security susbystem for 2.6.36 James Morris
2010-08-02  2:18 ` James Morris
2010-08-02  6:32   ` Kees Cook
2010-08-02  6:41     ` James Morris
2010-08-02  6:57       ` Kees Cook
2010-08-02 10:19         ` Christian Stroetmann
2010-08-02 16:36           ` Kees Cook [this message]
2010-08-02 17:33             ` Christian Stroetmann
2010-08-03 17:07               ` Kees Cook
2010-08-02 18:08           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-08-02 18:50             ` Christian Stroetmann
2010-08-02 12:24   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-02 16:59     ` Kees Cook
2010-08-02 18:34       ` David P. Quigley
2010-08-03 17:04         ` Kees Cook
2010-08-02 18:51       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-08-03 16:50         ` Kees Cook
2010-08-03 21:38           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-08-03 22:34             ` Kees Cook
2010-08-04  2:07               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-08-04  2:55                 ` Kees Cook
2010-08-04  3:54             ` Tetsuo Handa
2010-08-04  6:18               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-08-04  7:00                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2010-08-04 16:23                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-08-04 12:21               ` Christian Stroetmann
2010-08-03 21:52           ` Christian Stroetmann

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