linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] Add kdbus implementation

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Date:	Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:58:35 +0100
From:	Karol Lewandowski <k.lewandowsk@...sung.com>
To:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Ryan Lortie <desrt@...rt.ca>,
	Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@...labora.co.uk>,
	daniel@...que.org, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>,
	Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>,
	"casey.schaufler@...el.com" <casey.schaufler@...el.com>,
	marcel@...tmann.org, tixxdz@...ndz.org,
	javier.martinez@...labora.co.uk, alban.crequy@...labora.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] Add kdbus implementation

On 2014-10-31 00:13, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
>>> The core calls are already mediated by LSM today, right?  We don't want
>>> anyone to be parsing the data stream through an LSM, that idea got
>>> rejected a long time ago as something that is really not a good idea.
>>
>> Parsing data is out of question, of course, but this is not what we were
>> proposing.
> 
> Why is it out of the question. If it's a socket you can just a BPF filter
> on it, so why can't kdbus support similar basic functionality ?

Fair point.  I think that none of us simply considered this till now.

Thanks
-- 
Karol Lewandowski, Samsung R&D Institute Poland
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