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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

-- 
Crispin Cowan, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist, WireX                      http://wirex.com/~crispin/
Security Hardened Linux Distribution:       http://immunix.org
Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html
			    Just say ".Nyet"


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  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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-01 18:57 [RFC] LSM fix for stupid "empty" functions Adam J. Richter

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