Re: Clarifications of LSM API

From: Stephen Smalley (sds@private)
Date: Tue Jun 29 2004 - 08:54:30 PDT

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    On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 11:49, James Morris wrote:
    > The optimization for a single LSM is good, but won't the common case be
    > two LSMs (e.g. capabilities + something else) ?  If so, I'd suggest having
    > two statically allocated entries as primary & secondary, then any further
    > LSMs can be stacked dynamically.  Even then, unless a distro was planning
    > on shipping three or more stacked LSMs by default, I'd wonder if it was
    > really going to be useful in a wider sense.
    
    That seems reasonable, although the capabilities module doesn't actually
    need to use the security fields at present.
    
    -- 
    Stephen Smalley <sds@private>
    National Security Agency
    



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