RE: [PATCH] LSM networking update: summary (0/5)

From: James Morris (jmorrisat_private)
Date: Fri Feb 07 2003 - 15:10:44 PST

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    On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Makan Pourzandi (LMC) wrote:
    
    > Hi all,
    > 
    > My comments conecrn the (ip_decode_options, ip_encapsulate and
    > ip_decapsulate) hooks. Even, if James has done much regarding this topic
    > and I'm sure that he knows much more than me about it, I wanted to give
    > my 2 cents on why we should keep these hooks in future releases.
    > 
    
    As mentioned during the last week, the current set of network hooks will
    not directly support explicitly labeled networking.  It's not just the ip
    hooks: you'd also need the skb and possibly other rejected hooks to make 
    it useful.
    
    Possibilities moving forward include reworking the design of the relevant
    LSM frameork components so that they are acceptable to the network
    maintainers in a future kernel release cycle, and investigating other
    schemes such as implicit labeling (e.g. Ajaya Chitturi's work on the Flask
    project).
    
    
    - James
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    James Morris 
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