RE: about LSM in kernel 2.5

xiaofeng.lingat_private

Now, I totally understand, thanks a lot.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valdis.Kletnieksat_private [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieksat_private]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 2:17 AM
> To: Ling, Xiaofeng
> Cc: Greg KH; linux-security-moduleat_private
> Subject: Re: about LSM in kernel 2.5 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:26:41 +0800, "Ling, Xiaofeng" said:
> > The hook I mean is the call to security_ops->xxxx(), I can 
> not find these cod
> es in pristine kernel.(I read kernel 2.5.70)
> > These codes is added in additional LSM patch. 
> 
> OH.. *NOW* I see the confusion.
> 
> The file patch-2.5.72-lsm1.gz includes a *FEW* calls to 
> security_ops->x()
> that are not part of the main kernel yet.  There's probably 
> on the order of
> several hundred of them *already* squirreled throughout the 
> source tree, often
> fairly hard to spot since they're little 2-3 line of code 
> pieces in a million
> lines of code.  We've been pushing the patches to Linus a few 
> hooks at a time,
> and what's in the lsm-1 patch are *only* the hooks that we've 
> coded and not
> gotten into the Linus kernel yet.
> 
> This is similar to how Andrew Morton's -mm series, Martin 
> Bligh's -mjb series,
> William Irwin's -wli series, or the -odsl series of patches 
> all include code
> that for one reason or another isn't in the Linus kernel.
> 
> Hints for those searching for the hooks already in the tree:  
> The new calls are
> often somewhere near where older kernel trees had suser() or 
> capable() calls..
> 
> 
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