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From: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
To: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>,
	selinux@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] selinux: Assorted simplifications and cleanups
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:59:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHC9VhSGW9OwTPf1yHLea3oN6bRrpawsF4kSSgK1NkX9sXn5cQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bfa5a08c-9e72-5de5-4f57-c89debd94590@schaufler-ca.com>

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 6:09 PM Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> wrote:
> On 1/16/2020 4:04 AM, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> > This series contains some simplifications that I discovered while
> > working on another patch. I believe they also save some run time
> > (although not in any perf-critical paths) and some memory overhead.
> >
> > The first patch is a cleanup in security_load_policy()
>
> It's a real nuisance that the security server code uses the
> prefix "security_". If you're making significant changes in
> the security server it would be really nice to clean up the
> namespace collision.

For all the people lurking on the mailing list reading Casey's
response, *please* do not do this (without discussion).  That change
has the potential to wreck a development cycle.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-16 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-16 12:04 [PATCH 0/6] selinux: Assorted simplifications and cleanups Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-01-16 12:04 ` [PATCH 1/6] selinux: do not allocate ancillary buffer on first load Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-01-16 16:02   ` Stephen Smalley
2020-01-16 16:18     ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-01-16 21:57       ` Paul Moore
2020-01-16 16:34   ` Stephen Smalley
2020-01-16 12:04 ` [PATCH 2/6] selinux: simplify security_preserve_bools() Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-01-16 16:42   ` Stephen Smalley
2020-01-16 22:28     ` Paul Moore
2020-01-16 12:04 ` [PATCH 3/6] selinux: convert cond_list to array Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-01-16 17:07   ` Stephen Smalley
2020-01-16 12:04 ` [PATCH 4/6] selinux: convert cond_av_list " Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-01-16 17:13   ` Stephen Smalley
2020-01-16 12:04 ` [PATCH 5/6] selinux: convert cond_expr " Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-01-16 17:17   ` Stephen Smalley
2020-01-16 12:04 ` [PATCH 6/6] selinux: generalize evaluate_cond_node() Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-01-16 17:18   ` Stephen Smalley
2020-01-16 23:09 ` [PATCH 0/6] selinux: Assorted simplifications and cleanups Casey Schaufler
2020-01-16 23:59   ` Paul Moore [this message]
2020-01-17  0:49     ` Casey Schaufler
2020-01-17  0:56       ` Paul Moore

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