From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/12] AppArmor: userspace interfaces
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:44:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pr7qjpn8.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020911100829k515c7f73w84df942162a49a30@mail.gmail.com> (Pekka Enberg's message of "Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:29:52 +0200")
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:13 PM, John Johansen
> <john.johansen@canonical.com> wrote:
>> The current apparmorfs interface is compatible with previous versions
>> of AppArmor. The plans are to deprecate it (hence the config option
>> APPARMOR_COMPAT_24) and replace it with a more sysfs style single
>> entry per file interface.
>
> We don't usually merge compatibility code to handle ABIs that were
> developed out-of-tree. Why should we treat AppArmor differently?
I would say that always depends on the deployed base of the old ABI.
If there's a lot of users who would get broken I think there's a
good case for merging compat code (I don't know if that is or
isn't the case here).
A widely used distribution release with the old user land would
probably count.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-10 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-10 16:12 [AppArmor #3 0/12] AppArmor security module John Johansen
2009-11-10 16:12 ` [PATCH 01/12] AppArmor: misc. base functions and defines John Johansen
2009-11-10 16:12 ` [PATCH 02/12] AppArmor: basic auditing infrastructure John Johansen
2009-11-10 16:12 ` [PATCH 03/12] AppArmor: contexts used in attaching policy to system objects John Johansen
2009-11-10 16:12 ` [PATCH 04/12] AppArmor: core policy routines John Johansen
2009-11-10 16:12 ` [PATCH 05/12] AppArmor: dfa match engine John Johansen
2009-11-10 16:12 ` [PATCH 06/12] AppArmor: policy routines for loading and unpacking policy John Johansen
2009-11-10 16:13 ` [PATCH 07/12] AppArmor: userspace interfaces John Johansen
2009-11-10 16:29 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-11-10 16:44 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-11-10 18:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-15 22:14 ` david
2009-11-15 22:13 ` david
2009-11-10 18:51 ` John Johansen
2009-11-10 16:13 ` [PATCH 08/12] AppArmor: file enforcement routines John Johansen
2009-11-10 16:13 ` [PATCH 09/12] AppArmor: mediation of non file objects John Johansen
2009-11-10 16:13 ` [PATCH 10/12] AppArmor: domain functions for domain transition John Johansen
2009-11-10 16:13 ` [PATCH 11/12] AppArmor: LSM interface, and security module initialization John Johansen
2009-11-10 16:13 ` [PATCH 12/12] AppArmor: Enable configuring and building of the AppArmor security module John Johansen
2009-11-13 17:44 ` [AppArmor #3 0/12] " Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-13 17:58 ` John Johansen
2009-11-20 17:39 ` Tetsuo Handa
2009-11-21 5:28 ` Tetsuo Handa
2009-11-22 11:49 ` Tetsuo Handa
2009-11-23 10:10 ` John Johansen
2009-11-23 10:11 ` John Johansen
2009-11-23 10:10 ` John Johansen
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2009-11-03 23:48 [Patch " John Johansen
2009-11-03 23:48 ` [PATCH 07/12] AppArmor: userspace interfaces John Johansen
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