linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH try #3] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:01:28 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Jim Kovaric <jkovaric@...ibm.com>
Cc:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>, serue@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH try #3] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:19:56AM -0400, James Morris wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, James Morris wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Jim Kovaric wrote:
> > 
> > > IBMs  TAMOS (Tivoli Access Manager for Operating systems) contains a 
> > > loadable module,
> > >  which is an "out of tree module",  and registers "itself"  as a security 
> > > module during the TAMOS startup
> > > process. It also requires that SElinux  be "disabled"
> > 
> > Please provide a link to the source code, so we can understand how you're 
> > using the API.
> 
> I think I've found it:
> 
> ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/tivoli_support/patches/patches_6.0.0/6.0.0-TIV-PDO-FP0007/6.0.0-TIV-PDO-Linux.i386-FP0007.tar
> 
> Is that correct?

If so, that code seems to have been run through a "code obfuscator" and
as such, is not abiding by the GPL.  Can IBM please post the real code
as the GPL requires?

Jim, if you are not the person to make this request too, can you point
me at the correct person?

thanks,

greg k-h
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