[PATCH v2 5/5] security: Add CONFIG_SECURITY_HOOK_LIKELY

KP Singh kpsingh at kernel.org
Mon Sep 18 16:28:55 UTC 2023


On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 3:56 PM Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 8:05 PM KP Singh <kpsingh at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > This config influences the nature of the static key that guards the
> > static call for LSM hooks.
>
> No further comment on the rest of this patch series yet, this just
> happened to bubble to the top of my inbox and I wanted to comment
> quickly - I'm not in favor of adding a Kconfig option for something

I understand, I will send the v3 with the patch for reference and we
can drop it, if that's the consensus.

> like this.  If you have an extremely well defined use case then you
> can probably do the work to figure out the "correct" value for the
> tunable, but for a general purpose kernel build that will have
> different LSMs active, a variety of different BPF LSM hook
> implementations at different times, etc. there is little hope to
> getting this right.  No thank you.
>
> --
> paul-moore.com



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