Re: [PATCH] security: allow Yama to be unconditionally stacked

Eric Paris
2012-09-05T18:32:22Z

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Serge Hallyn
<serge.hallyn@canonical.com> wrote:
> Quoting Kees Cook (keescook@chromium.org):
>> Unconditionally call Yama when CONFIG_SECURITY_YAMA_STACKED is selected,
>> no matter what LSM module is primary.
>>
>> Ubuntu and Chrome OS already carry patches to do this, and Fedora
>> has voiced interest in doing this as well. Instead of having multiple
>> distributions (or LSM authors) carrying these patches, just allow Yama
>> to be called unconditionally when selected by the new CONFIG.
>
> I don't really like having both the STACKED and non-stacked paths. But
> I don't have a good alternative.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>
> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>

I said basically the same thing to Kees off list. But I don't have an
answer either.

Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>