From: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>,
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] security: allow Yama to be unconditionally stacked
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:47:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5047AC47.8080808@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACLa4pvcqXfArSmm3bRadJF9unafyko9T4F9OfwUYTgHdfU49g@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/05/2012 11:32 AM, Eric Paris wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Serge Hallyn
> <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> wrote:
>> Quoting Kees Cook (keescook@chromium.org):
>>> Unconditionally call Yama when CONFIG_SECURITY_YAMA_STACKED is selected,
>>> no matter what LSM module is primary.
>>>
>>> Ubuntu and Chrome OS already carry patches to do this, and Fedora
>>> has voiced interest in doing this as well. Instead of having multiple
>>> distributions (or LSM authors) carrying these patches, just allow Yama
>>> to be called unconditionally when selected by the new CONFIG.
>>
>> I don't really like having both the STACKED and non-stacked paths. But
>> I don't have a good alternative.
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>>
>> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
>
> I said basically the same thing to Kees off list. But I don't have an
> answer either.
>
> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
>
Yeah I'm not fond of it either but until some more generic form of LSM
stacking arives, I don't see a good alternative either
so until then
Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-05 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-04 20:32 [PATCH] security: allow Yama to be unconditionally stacked Kees Cook
2012-09-05 15:47 ` Serge Hallyn
2012-09-05 18:32 ` Eric Paris
2012-09-05 19:47 ` John Johansen [this message]
2012-09-05 21:08 ` James Morris
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