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From: Deven Bowers <deven.desai@linux.microsoft.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: agk@redhat.com, axboe@kernel.dk, snitzer@redhat.com,
	jmorris@namei.org, serge@hallyn.com, zohar@linux.ibm.com,
	linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com,
	pasha.tatashin@soleen.com, sashal@kernel.org,
	jaskarankhurana@linux.microsoft.com, nramas@linux.microsoft.com,
	mdsakib@linux.microsoft.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 11/12] documentation: Add IPE Documentation
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 14:18:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c55bbe9-2c6e-7a0d-cf90-5b2aee724f19@linux.microsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200414093809.2c6ef93b@lwn.net>


On 4/14/2020 8:38 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Mon,  6 Apr 2020 15:14:38 -0700
> deven.desai@linux.microsoft.com wrote:
>
>> From: Deven Bowers <deven.desai@linux.microsoft.com>
>>
>> Add IPE's documentation to the kernel tree.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Deven Bowers <deven.desai@linux.microsoft.com>
> Thanks for including this nice documentation from the outset!  I have a
> couple of tiny nits to pick, but nothing really substantive to complain
> about, so:
>
>    Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Thanks!

> [...]
>
>> +IPE is a Linux Security Module, which allows for a configurable policy
> I'd drop the comma (I told you these were nits!)

Got it, thanks!

>
> [...]
>
>> +IPE Policy
>> +~~~~~~~~~~
>> +
>> +IPE policy is designed to be both forward compatible and backwards
>> +compatible. There is one required line, at the top of the policy,
>> +indicating the policy name, and the policy version, for instance:
>> +
>> +::
>> +
>> +   policy_name="Ex Policy" policy_version=0.0.0
> This pattern can be compressed a bit by just putting the "::" at the end of
> the last line of text:
>
> 	indicating the policy name, and the policy version, for instance::
>
> 	   policy_name="Ex Policy" policy_version=0.0.0
>
> The result is a bit more readable in the plain-text format, IMO, and
> renders exactly the same in Sphinx.

Awesome. I'll address this feedback in v3.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-14 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-06 22:14 [RFC PATCH v2 00/12] Integrity Policy Enforcement LSM (IPE) deven.desai
2020-04-06 22:14 ` [RFC PATCH v2 01/12] scripts: add ipe tooling to generate boot policy deven.desai
2020-04-06 22:14 ` [RFC PATCH v2 02/12] security: add ipe lsm evaluation loop and audit system deven.desai
2020-04-07 12:13   ` Jann Horn
2020-04-09 16:27     ` Deven Bowers
2020-04-06 22:14 ` [RFC PATCH v2 03/12] security: add ipe lsm policy parser and policy loading deven.desai
2020-04-07 15:39   ` Jann Horn
2020-04-09 16:41     ` Deven Bowers
2020-04-06 22:14 ` [RFC PATCH v2 04/12] ipe: add property for trust of boot volume deven.desai
2020-04-06 22:14 ` [RFC PATCH v2 05/12] fs: add security blob and hooks for block_device deven.desai
2020-04-06 22:14 ` [RFC PATCH v2 06/12] dm-verity: move signature check after tree validation deven.desai
2020-04-06 22:14 ` [RFC PATCH v2 07/12] dm-verity: add bdev_setsecurity hook for dm-verity signature deven.desai
2020-04-06 22:14 ` [RFC PATCH v2 08/12] ipe: add property for signed dmverity volumes deven.desai
2020-04-06 22:14 ` [RFC PATCH v2 09/12] dm-verity: add bdev_setsecurity hook for root-hash deven.desai
2020-04-06 22:14 ` [RFC PATCH v2 10/12] ipe: add property for dmverity roothash deven.desai
2020-04-06 22:14 ` [RFC PATCH v2 11/12] documentation: Add IPE Documentation deven.desai
2020-04-14 15:38   ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-04-14 21:18     ` Deven Bowers [this message]
2020-04-06 22:14 ` [RFC PATCH v2 12/12] cleanup: uapi/linux/audit.h deven.desai
2020-04-07 21:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 00/12] Integrity Policy Enforcement LSM (IPE) Nayna
2020-04-09 16:25   ` Deven Bowers

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