From: Crispin Cowan <crispin@wirex.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-security-module@wirex.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] LSM fix for stupid "empty" functions
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:17:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DE9C5B2.4070404@wirex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021201083056.GJ679@kroah.com
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Greg KH wrote:
>I'm _really_ tired of all of the "empty" functions that all security
>modules need to provide. So here's a brute force patch that lets any
>security module only set the functions that it wants to override. If
>the function is NULL, then the "dummy" function will be used instead.
>
Sounds good to me. So you're just creating a default null function, and
then stuffing all the stubs with a pointer to that function?
>Comments welcome (if there are none, I'll send it on to Linus.)
>
I suggest holding that post to Linus until Tuesday am. Lots of people
are likely taking a long weekend away from software, and won't see your
post until Monday morning.
Thanks,
Crispin
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Just say ".Nyet"
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-01 8:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-01 8:30 [RFC] LSM fix for stupid "empty" functions Greg KH
2002-12-01 8:17 ` Crispin Cowan [this message]
2002-12-01 17:49 ` Greg KH
2002-12-01 16:59 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-12-01 18:12 ` Greg KH
2002-12-01 17:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-12-01 18:26 ` Greg KH
2002-12-03 2:37 ` Dragan Stancevic
2002-12-03 16:01 ` Greg KH
2002-12-03 15:14 ` Dragan Stancevic
2002-12-01 17:46 ` James Morris
2002-12-01 18:46 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-12-01 20:05 ` Greg KH
2002-12-01 19:25 ` Greg KH
2002-12-02 2:00 ` James Morris
2002-12-02 6:57 ` Greg KH
2002-12-03 8:04 ` James Morris
2002-12-04 0:13 ` [RFC] LSM fix for stupid "empty" functions - take 2 Greg KH
2002-12-04 8:14 ` Chris Wright
2002-12-04 23:00 ` Greg KH
2002-12-04 23:44 ` Chris Wright
2002-12-05 0:09 ` James Morris
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2002-12-01 18:57 [RFC] LSM fix for stupid "empty" functions Adam J. Richter
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