On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 22:28:32 +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > Is there no work being done on LSM for PPC? I'm not a bigtime kernel > > hacker or anything, but I like playing... =) I'm thinking of trying to > > port the x86 part of the patch to apply against the PPC kernel, but if > > there is something like an incompatability with LSM and PPC, I'm probably > > not the best person to resolve it. =) > > Looks like there needs to be a patch to arch/ppc/config.in to do the > following: > source security/Config.in Yes... this one is definately needed... (I spent about 10 minutes hunting around thinking maybe the LSM stuff was cleverly hidden somewhere). =) > Then there needs to be a patch for arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S for a system call > number for sys_security (number 209?). > > Then there's sys_iopl() (as previously discussed on this list) and > sys_ptrace() support. > > It doesn't look that difficult by kernel coding standards... Well, I'll give it a go and report back with what I come up. Thanks for the tips. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx -source http://www.freezer-burn.org/bios/vdanen.gpg | gpg --import" {GnuPG: 1024D/FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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