[GIT PULL] SELinux patches for v5.8

Casey Schaufler casey at schaufler-ca.com
Wed Jun 3 22:38:45 UTC 2020


On 6/3/2020 3:12 PM, James Morris wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jun 2020, Casey Schaufler wrote:
>
>> The use of security modules was expected to be rare.
> This is not correct. Capabilities were ported to LSM and stacked from the 
> beginning, and several major distros worked on LSM so they could ship 
> their own security modules.

Capabilities has always been a special case.
Until Android adopted SELinux the actual use of LSMs was rare.






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