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Message-ID: <889357.90007.qm@web36607.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:55:18 -0800 (PST) From: Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com> To: paul.moore@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] NetLabel: add the remaining CIPSO tag types from the IETF draft --- paul.moore@...com wrote: > This patchset consists of three patches that add > support for the remaining two > tag types from the CIPSO draft specification, the > enumerated and range tags. > The most significant part about adding these two > tags is that NetLabel now has > the ability to represent more than 240 categories > (limitation imposed by the > current restricted bitmap tag). > > In addition, the first patch in the set converts > NetLabel's contiguous char > string category bitmap stored in network friendly > bit/byte order into a sparse > bitmap stored in host friendly bit/byte order. > While this change was not > required to support the new CIPSO tags, it should > make life much easier as the > old category bitmap would have proven problematic as > the number of usable > categories increases with the new tag types. It > also has a side effect of > making the LSM specific code much less ugly. Fabulous. Thank you. Casey Schaufler casey@...aufler-ca.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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