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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710012240270.7130@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:49:48 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc: casey@...aufler-ca.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access
Control Kernel
On Sep 30 2007 01:16, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>> Documentation/Smack.txt | 104 +
>> security/Kconfig | 1
>> security/Makefile | 2
>> security/smack/Kconfig | 10
>> security/smack/Makefile | 9
>> security/smack/smack.h | 207 ++
>> security/smack/smack_access.c | 345 ++++
>> security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 2685 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> security/smack/smackfs.c | 1201 ++++++++++++++
>> 9 files changed, 4564 insertions(+)
>
>My major non-technical concern is that Casey Schaufler might get hit by a
>bus. If this happens, we can remove the feature in three minutes (that
>diffstat again), but that may not be feasible if people have come to rely
>upon the feature.
>
>otoh, if a significant number of people are using smack, presumably someone
>else would step up to maintain smack post-bus. The risk seems acceptable
>to me.
I bet that the number of people submitting patches / possibly maintaining it
is hyperbelic to the code size. Everyone that runs away from selinux's
code size and/or "complexity" is a potential smack/aa user/contributor.
>Is smack useful without a patched ls, sshd and init.d? What is the status
>of getting those userspace patches merged? ie: do you know who to send the
>diffs to, and are they likely to take them?
As long as one does not need to recompile userspace (like it is the case with
libselinux), it wins.
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