[PATCH 1/2] LSM: switch to blocking policy update notifiers

[Janne Karhunen]

On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 6:23 PM Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com> wrote:

> > -int call_lsm_notifier(enum lsm_event event, void *data);
> > -int register_lsm_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
> > -int unregister_lsm_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
> > +int call_blocking_lsm_notifier(enum lsm_event event, void *data);
> > +int register_blocking_lsm_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
> > +int unregister_blocking_lsm_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
>
> Why is it important to change the names of these hooks?
> It's not like you had call_atomic_lsm_notifier() before.
> It seems like a lot of unnecessary code churn.

Paul was thinking there will eventually be two sets of notifiers
(atomic and blocking) and this creates the clear separation. That's
probably true, but it does indeed create a pretty big change that it
is not really needed yet. I'm fine either way.


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Janne