linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] integrity: Linux Integrity Module(LIM)

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Message-Id: <1227208898.3066.36.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:21:38 -0500
From:	david safford <safford@...son.ibm.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...x-foundation.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] integrity: Linux Integrity Module(LIM)

On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 12:45 -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Ok, the API looks sane to me.  But one big question:  any reason you
> don't just directly call into your implementation instead of all these
> odd hooks?  This seems to be a lot of overhead just for making the code
> less readable..
> 

The consensus in the (insane) security community was to have an
interface with selectable modules similar to LSM and its modules,
so that users could easily choose among a set of integrity providers.

dave
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