netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] NetLabel: consolidate the struct socket/sock handling to just struct sock

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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>

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