On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Greg KH wrote: > > I think we still want to make sure that the module author has explicitly > > accounted for all of the hooks, in case new hooks are added. > > But with this patch, if the module author hasn't specified a hook, they > get the "dummy" ones. So the structure should always be full of > pointers, making the VERIFY_STRUCT macro pointless. Yes, but defaulting unspecified hooks to dummy operations could be dangerous. A module might appear to compile and run perfectly well, but be missing some important new hook. - James -- James Morris <jmorrisat_private> _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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