linux-kernel - Re: actx not used?

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Date:   Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:57:45 -0500
From:   Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
To:     Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux-Audit Mailing List <linux-audit@...hat.com>,
        Linux Security Module list 
        <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: actx not used?

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 7:59 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com> wrote:
> Hello users of *audit_rule_match(),
>
> As far as I can tell, it appears that the audit_context *actx parameter
> to *audit_rule_match() is not used by any consumers in-tree upstream.
> This includes selinux, apparmour, integrity and smack.
> Might there be others out of tree that do use it (or did request it)?

I'm not aware of any work-in-progress that would make use of it, so if
it isn't used by anything in-tree, go ahead and get rid of it.  If we
need it again in the future for some reason we can always add it back.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com