From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>,
Thomas Fricaccia <thomas_fricacci@yahoo.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
Crispin Cowan <crispin@crispincowan.com>,
Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: eradicating out of tree modules
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:55:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4724BF06.30404@imap.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47249E8C.4070001@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Am 28.10.2007 15:37 schrieb Stefan Richter:
> Tilman Schmidt wrote:
>> Am 28.10.2007 10:25 schrieb Stefan Richter:
>>> You two are hypothesizing.
>> No, we're not. We're discussing the very real issue of whether
>> LSM should be amputated in such a way as to make life difficult
>> for out of tree security module developers.
>
> I still believe you are. From what I understood, the API change had
> technical reasons. (What I have read is that using security modules in
> the form of loadable and unloadable kernel modules didn't make sense.)
The jury is still out on that, and it's not my area of expertise
anyway. But Adrian declared that making life more difficult for
out-of-tree module developers would in itself be a legitimate
reason for such a change, and that's what I'm disputing.
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Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-10-18 2:18 ` LSM conversion to static interface Linus Torvalds
2007-10-19 20:26 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-10-19 20:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-20 11:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-20 22:57 ` James Morris
2007-10-21 22:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-23 4:09 ` LSM conversion to static interface [revert patch] Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-23 4:56 ` James Morris
2007-10-23 4:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-23 5:16 ` Chris Wright
2007-10-23 9:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-23 9:13 ` Chris Wright
2007-10-23 9:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-24 0:31 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-24 0:32 ` Chris Wright
2007-10-24 5:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-24 11:50 ` Linux Security *Module* Framework (Was: LSM conversion to static interface Simon Arlott
2007-10-24 12:55 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-24 18:11 ` Linux Security *Module* Framework (Was: LSM conversion to static interface) Simon Arlott
2007-10-24 18:51 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-24 18:59 ` Simon Arlott
2007-10-24 19:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-24 21:02 ` David P. Quigley
2007-10-24 21:37 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-10-24 21:51 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-24 22:02 ` David P. Quigley
2007-10-24 23:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-25 1:50 ` david
2007-10-25 3:50 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-10-24 21:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-24 21:58 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-10-24 22:04 ` David P. Quigley
2007-10-25 11:38 ` Simon Arlott
2007-10-24 20:18 ` Crispin Cowan
2007-10-24 20:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-24 21:29 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-10-24 22:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-24 22:58 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-10-24 23:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-24 23:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-25 0:41 ` Chris Wright
2007-10-25 2:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-30 3:37 ` Toshiharu Harada
2007-10-25 1:03 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-10-25 0:23 ` Chris Wright
2007-10-25 0:35 ` Ray Lee
2007-10-25 1:26 ` Peter Dolding
2007-10-25 1:41 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-25 2:11 ` david
2007-10-25 18:17 ` Ray Lee
2007-10-25 22:21 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-26 3:45 ` david
2007-10-26 5:44 ` Peter Dolding
2007-10-27 18:29 ` Pavel Machek
2007-10-28 18:48 ` Hua Zhong
2007-10-28 19:05 ` Hua Zhong
2007-10-28 22:08 ` Crispin Cowan
2007-10-28 22:50 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-26 20:42 ` serge
2007-10-28 23:55 ` Peter Dolding
2007-10-29 5:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-25 9:19 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-10-25 16:04 ` Ray Lee
2007-10-25 17:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-30 9:41 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-10-25 1:42 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-10-27 18:22 ` Pavel Machek
2007-10-28 19:42 ` Linux Security *Module* Framework Tilman Schmidt
2007-10-28 20:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-30 3:23 ` Linux Security *Module* Framework (Was: LSM conversion to static interface) Toshiharu Harada
2007-10-30 8:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-30 8:50 ` Crispin Cowan
2007-10-30 9:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-30 9:21 ` Toshiharu Harada
2007-10-25 11:44 ` Simon Arlott
2007-10-25 23:09 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-10-26 2:56 ` Greg KH
2007-10-26 7:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-26 15:54 ` Greg KH
2007-10-26 9:46 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-10-26 15:58 ` Greg KH
2007-10-26 16:32 ` Simon Arlott
2007-10-27 14:07 ` eradicating out of tree modules (was: Linux Security *Module* Framework) Tilman Schmidt
2007-10-28 1:21 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-26 23:26 ` Linux Security *Module* Framework (Was: LSM conversion to static interface) Adrian Bunk
2007-10-27 14:47 ` eradicating out of tree modules (was: : Linux Security *Module* Framework) Tilman Schmidt
2007-10-27 17:31 ` eradicating out of tree modules Stefan Richter
2007-10-28 0:55 ` eradicating out of tree modules (was: : Linux Security *Module* Framework) Adrian Bunk
2007-10-28 9:25 ` eradicating out of tree modules Stefan Richter
2007-10-28 12:01 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-10-28 14:37 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-28 14:59 ` Simon Arlott
2007-10-28 16:55 ` Tilman Schmidt [this message]
2007-10-28 18:51 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-10-28 19:25 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-30 0:29 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-10-30 13:11 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-10-30 13:19 ` Xavier Bestel
2007-10-30 15:30 ` Greg KH
2007-10-29 23:51 ` Out-of-tree modules [was: Linux Security *Module* Framework] Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-30 0:46 ` Lee Revell
2007-10-30 1:19 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-27 14:08 ` Linux Security *Module* Framework (Was: LSM conversion to static interface Tetsuo Handa
2007-11-05 6:42 ` Crispin Cowan
2007-10-23 9:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-23 5:44 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2007-10-23 8:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-23 9:14 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2007-10-23 9:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-23 15:20 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-10-23 15:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-23 15:34 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-10-25 10:23 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-10-19 21:07 ` James Morris
2007-10-22 1:12 ` Crispin Cowan
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