linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/14] EVM

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Message-ID: <AANLkTil8LHjRT_PMosymmtBb1pxIzkBaWC0ef35DCBUU@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 31 May 2010 15:02:19 +0500
From:	Shaz <shazalive@...il.com>
To:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	David Safford <safford@...son.ibm.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	securityengineeringresearchgroup 
	<securityengineeringresearchgroup@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] EVM

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 5:20 AM, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Mimi Zohar wrote:
>
>> Much appreciation to Dave Hansen, Serge Hallyn, and Matt Helsley for
>> reviewing the patches.
>
> We're not seeing much comment on this code beyond the folk above.  It
> might help to cc fsdevel.
>
> Also, I raised some issues:
>
>  I'd also be interested to know what kind of user demand there is for EVM
>  -- are there any specific instances of user requirements which are met
>  by it?  Do any distros plan to enable and support it?
>
> and does this code meet the requirements of potential users such as Meego ?

EVM is based on EA while Aegis does not use EA as far as I can
understand from the documentation available. Can we make EVM
independent of EA? Even the MAC mechanism is very different then
existing LSM based mechanisms.



-- 
Shaz
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