Re: Out of tree module using LSM

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Tvrtko A. Ursulin" <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Out of tree module using LSM
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:41:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071128144156.GA14106@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711281242.52941.tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:42:52PM +0000, Tvrtko A. Ursulin wrote:
> 
> Hi Linus, all,
> 
> During one recent LKML discussion 
> (http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119267398722085&w=2) about LSM going 
> static  you called for LSM users to speak up.
> 
> We here at Sophos (the fourth largest endpoint security vendor in the world) 
> have such a module called Talpa which is a part of our main endpoint security 
> product for Linux  that protects from viruses and malware hosted on Linux, 
> including those targetting Windows or other connected devices,  
> (http://www.sophos.com/products/enterprise/endpoint/security-and-control/linux/index.html) 
> which is GPL code and has been in the field for almost three years now. It's 
> source code has been shipping with the product from the start.  We also have 
> a SourceForge project at http://sourceforge.net/projects/talpa/ to host it.

Thanks for showing a wonderful source code example of why lsm shouldn't
be exported :)