[PATCH] LSM: Make security_hook_heads a local variable.

Igor Stoppa igor.stoppa at huawei.com
Mon May 22 19:50:09 UTC 2017


On 22/05/17 18:09, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> On 5/22/2017 7:03 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

[...]

>> But even with those we can still chain
>> them together with a list with external linkage.
> 
> I gave up that approach in 2012. Too many unnecessary calls to
> null functions, and massive function vectors with a tiny number
> of non-null entries. From a data structure standpoint, it was
> just wrong. The list scheme is exactly right for the task at
> hand.

I understand this as a green light, for me to continue with the plan of
using LSM Hooks as example for making dynamically allocated data become
read-only, using also Tetsuo's patch (thanks, btw).

Is that correct?

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thanks, igor
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