On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 01:11:40PM -0400, David Wheeler wrote: > Below is some discussion on locking; I now plan to > take a very conservative and "safe" approach for at least > the first version of "Stacker". Comments welcome. I would hate to see the benchmark runs with a lock being grabbed for every security hook. I think you just set back the whole "no more BKL" posse a few years :) This is one reason I think stacked modules are mostly an academic exercise, and can not be a viable solution, unless some of the proposed module locking and reference counting logic gets added to the kernel. Although RCU might be a nice interm solution. The patch for that is available, and might be worth trying out once you get a working stacking module (and modules to stack.) Good luck, greg k-h _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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