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Message-ID: <5047AC47.8080808@canonical.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:47:19 -0700
From: John Johansen <john.johansen@...onical.com>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>
CC: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] security: allow Yama to be unconditionally stacked
On 09/05/2012 11:32 AM, Eric Paris wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Serge Hallyn
> <serge.hallyn@...onical.com> wrote:
>> Quoting Kees Cook (keescook@...omium.org):
>>> Unconditionally call Yama when CONFIG_SECURITY_YAMA_STACKED is selected,
>>> no matter what LSM module is primary.
>>>
>>> Ubuntu and Chrome OS already carry patches to do this, and Fedora
>>> has voiced interest in doing this as well. Instead of having multiple
>>> distributions (or LSM authors) carrying these patches, just allow Yama
>>> to be called unconditionally when selected by the new CONFIG.
>>
>> I don't really like having both the STACKED and non-stacked paths. But
>> I don't have a good alternative.
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
>>
>> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>
>
> I said basically the same thing to Kees off list. But I don't have an
> answer either.
>
> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
>
Yeah I'm not fond of it either but until some more generic form of LSM
stacking arives, I don't see a good alternative either
so until then
Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@...onical.com>
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