Re: [RFC] LSM changes for 2.5.38

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:48:49 +0100


On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:51:48PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > leave the capable in and say it's enough or you add your random hook
> > and remove that one. Just adding more and more hooks without thinking
> > gets us exactly nowhere except to an unmaintainable codebase.
>
> capable is needed to be checked, as we are not modifying the existing
> permission logic.

I odn't think it makes sense to have two security checks that both
end up in the LSM code after each other..

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