Re: [PATCH] remove sys_security

From: Stephen Smalley (sdsat_private)
Date: Fri Oct 18 2002 - 10:44:18 PDT

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    On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Russell Coker wrote:
    
    > The only code that we really want to see in the mainline kernel is the hooks
    > for permission checks.  Personally I would not mind if no security module
    > ever gets included in Linus' source tree.
    
    I'd disagree.  I would like to see selinux included in the mainstream
    kernel someday, but I know that selinux needs quite a bit of work
    (Christoph says "rewrite") to make it acceptable.  It also doesn't make
    much sense to submit selinux until after the remainder of LSM has been
    submitted for possible merging and after some level of pruning
    and refinement of LSM has occurred.  I would also expect other security
    modules, e.g. DTE, to be submitted by their authors eventually.  If there
    aren't any in-tree users of LSM, then there is little motivation for the
    kernel developers to retain LSM.
    
    --
    Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs
    ssmalleyat_private
    
    
    
    
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