[RFC PATCH] lsm,selinux: pass the family information along with xfrm flow

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Wed Oct 28 02:09:49 UTC 2020


On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 9:44 AM Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 7:09 PM James Morris <jmorris at namei.org> wrote:
> > I'm not keen on adding a parameter which nobody is using. Perhaps a note
> > in the header instead?
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 6:14 AM Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> > Please at least change to the struct flowi to flowi_common if we're
> > not adding a family field.
>
> It did feel a bit weird adding a (currently) unused parameter, so I
> can understand the concern, I just worry that a comment in the code
> will be easily overlooked.  I also thought about passing a pointer to
> the nested flowi_common struct, but it doesn't appear that this is
> done anywhere else in the stack so it felt wrong to do it here.

With the merge window behind us, where do stand on this?  I see the
ACK from Casey and some grumbling about adding an unused parameter
(which is a valid argument, I just feel the alternative is worse), but
I haven't seen any serious NACKs.

Any objections or other strong feelings to me merging this via the
selinux/next branch?

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paul moore
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