netdev - Re: [PATCH] LSM: Add security_socket_post_accept() and security_socket_post_recv

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Message-ID: <20090422061006.GB27688@bx9.net>
Date:	Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:10:06 -0700
From:	Greg Lindahl <greg@...kko.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp, paul.moore@...com,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LSM: Add security_socket_post_accept() and
	security_socket_post_recv_datagram().

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 09:23:42PM -0700, David Miller wrote:

> I said explicitly that hard errors are allows (out of file
> descriptors, memory allocation failure)

I have no idea what you meant by a "hard" error. Note that I also
discussed EAGAIN, which appears to happen commonly historically and
today, and appears to be what the security module folks would want to
have happen and you're rejecting. Do you consider that to be a hard
error? I'm betting not.

-- greg


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