linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/2] security: add const to security_task

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Date:	Thu, 7 Oct 2010 10:41:01 +1100 (EST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] security: add const to
 security_task_setscheduler()

On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 04:21:18 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] security: remove unused parameter from security_task_setscheduler()
> 
> All security modules shouldn't change sched_param parameter of
> security_task_setscheduler().  This is not only meaningless, but also
> make a harmful result if caller pass a static variable.
> 
> This patch remove policy and sched_param parameter from
> security_task_setscheduler() becuase none of security module is
> using it.
> 
> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>

Thanks.

Applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next

-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>
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