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

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Date:   Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:03:24 +1000 (AEST)
From:   James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
cc:     Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: LSM: Correct the basic LSM description

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

> 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 Linux Security Modules (LSM), which is frighteningly out of date.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?

You can grab it, but I don't think this patch ended up on the lsm list for 
review (I only caught it in the moderation queue for lss-pc).


-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>