[PATCH v7 0/6] Safe LSM (un)loading, and immutable hooks

Sargun Dhillon sargun at sargun.me
Mon Apr 30 21:29:02 UTC 2018


On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 2:16 PM, James Morris <jmorris at namei.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2018, Sargun Dhillon wrote:
>
>> I guess I'm just a little bit frustrated, because, in my mind, some of
>> my patches provide immediate value, and are ready to be reviewed, and
>> or respun.
>
> I'm not seeing much value in this functionality, given that SELinux is the
> only unloadable LSM, and that is really just an historical workaround
> which may be normalized at some point.
>
> Patch 1 may be useful on its own.
Do you not think patch 2 is also useful? Is it worth me re-rolling 1-2
independently?

Do you think not think that minor loadable LSMs are valuable? -- And
if so, do you think it's okay with, or without guardrails?
>
> --
> James Morris
> <jmorris at namei.org>
>
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