linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] selinux: Remove load size limit

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Date:   Tue, 1 Oct 2019 09:36:36 -0400
From:   Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
To:     zhanglin <zhang.lin16@....com.cn>
Cc:     Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
        Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>, selinux@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xue.zhihong@....com.cn,
        wang.yi59@....com.cn, jiang.xuexin@....com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selinux: Remove load size limit

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 9:55 PM zhanglin <zhang.lin16@....com.cn> wrote:
> Load size was limited to 64MB, this was legacy limitation due to vmalloc()
> which was removed a while ago.
>
> Limiting load size to 64MB is both pointless and affects real world use
> cases.
>
> Signed-off-by: zhanglin <zhang.lin16@....com.cn>
> ---
>  security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

I just merged this into selinux/next (thank you!), but I removed the
last sentence in the description that mentioned "real world use cases"
since that appears to be a cut-n-paste artifact and not a reflection
of what we are currently seeing from users.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com