netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] LSM: Make the Labeled IPsec hooks more stack friendly

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Message-ID: <Xine.LNX.4.64.0804110808080.1313@us.intercode.com.au>
Date:	Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:08:50 +1000 (EST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>
cc:	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	selinux@...ho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] LSM: Make the Labeled IPsec hooks more stack
 friendly

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Paul Moore wrote:

> The xfrm_get_policy() and xfrm_add_pol_expire() put some rather large structs
> on the stack to work around the LSM API.  This patch attempts to fix that
> problem by changing the LSM API to require only the relevant "security"
> pointers instead of the entire SPD entry; we do this for all of the
> security_xfrm_policy*() functions to keep things consistent.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>

Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>

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