[PATCH v4 11/34] lsm: get rid of the lsm_names list and do some cleanup

Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.ibm.com
Mon Sep 22 10:52:48 UTC 2025


On Sun, 2025-09-21 at 15:23 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM Mimi Zohar <zohar at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 18:03 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> > > The LSM currently has a lot of code to maintain a list of the currently
> > > active LSMs in a human readable string, with the only user being the
> > > "/sys/kernel/security/lsm" code.  Let's drop all of that code and
> > > generate the string on first use and then cache it for subsequent use.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
> > 
> > FYI, checkpatch.pl complains of unbalanced braces, otherwise
> 
> Looks good to me?
> 
> % stg export --stdout lsm-lsm_names_cleanup | ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -
> total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 139 lines checked
> 
> Your patch has no obvious style problems and is ready for submission.

Try adding "--strict", which enforces
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.html#placing-braces-and-spaces

Mimi



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