From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261708AbVAGXVG (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:21:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261697AbVAGXUe (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:20:34 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:23770 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261703AbVAGXPo (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:15:44 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:20:04 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: chrisw@osdl.org, rlrevell@joe-job.com, paul@linuxaudiosystems.com, arjanv@redhat.com, hch@infradead.org, mingo@elte.hu, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, joq@io.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM Message-Id: <20050107152004.0f8c488e.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200501072301.j07N1TW2027950@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <200501071620.j07GKrIa018718@localhost.localdomain> <1105132348.20278.88.camel@krustophenia.net> <20050107134941.11cecbfc.akpm@osdl.org> <200501072207.j07M7Lda004987@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20050107143638.L2357@build.pdx.osdl.net> <200501072301.j07N1TW2027950@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > fix the inheritance problems Does anyone actually have a handle on what's involved in fixing the inheritance problem? It's risky, but it is something which we should do. We really shouldn't have merged all that new fancy security stuff when the existing security framework was known-badly-broken. Especially as the new stuff seems incapable of doing simple things which unbroken inherited caps would do perfectly.