Re: [BK PATCH] LSM changes for 2.5.59

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 12:45:20 EST


[it would be really nice if you at least Cc'ed me when replying to my mails..
  *sigh*]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 05:16:39PM +0000, David Wagner wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >Well, selinux is still far from a mergeable shape and even needed additional
> >patches to the LSM tree last time I checked. This think of submitting hooks
> >for code that obviously isn't even intende to be merged in mainline is what
> >I really dislike, and it's the root for many problems with LSM.
>
> You keep bringing up SELinux. Maybe you dislike SELinux; I don't know.
> In any case, LSM is not there just to support SELinux. It's intended
> to support a broad range of security modules and security policies.
> LSM is bigger than just SELinux.

I bring up selinux because it's the only module in the lsm patches that I
consider more than just a bunch of hacks. So, no it's not a dislike but
they only thing I actually consider worth mentioning.

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