linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: LSM: Correct the basic LSM description

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Message-ID: <20200428124436.1c7463ee@lwn.net>
Date:   Tue, 28 Apr 2020 12:44:36 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
Cc:     Linux Security Summit Program Committee 
        <lss-pc@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: LSM: Correct the basic LSM description

On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 14:48:34 -0700
Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com> wrote:

> This is a first pass at updating the basic documentation on
> Linux Security Modules (LSM), which is frighteningly out of date.
> Remove untrue statements about the LSM framework. Replace them
> with true statements where it is convenient to do so. This is
> the beginnig of a larger effort to bring the LSM documentation
> up to date.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/security/lsm.rst | 202 ++++++++++++++---------------------------
>  1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 136 deletions(-)

James, are you planning to pick this up, or should I grab it?

Thanks,

jon