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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:18:26 -0400 (EDT) From: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> To: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com> cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] NetLabel: consolidate the struct socket/sock handling to just struct sock On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Paul Moore wrote: > The current NetLabel code has some redundant APIs which allow both > "struct socket" and "struct sock" types to be used; this may have made sense at > some point but it is wasteful now. Remove the functions that operate on > sockets and convert the callers. Not only does this make the code smaller and > more consistent but it pushes the locking burden up to the caller which can be > more intelligent about the locks. Also, perform the same conversion (socket > to sock) on the SELinux/NetLabel glue code where it make sense. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> - 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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