From: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
To: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
"Andrew Cooper" <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>,
Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>,
"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@suse.com>, Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>,
"Stefano Stabellini" <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Subject: Re: [XEN PATCH] xen: allow XSM_FLASK_POLICY only if checkpolicy binary is available
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 17:27:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YPGzYbDVOV3T7zCd@perard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40A28D22-91BC-438D-99C9-46DF6DA90A5E@citrix.com>
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 04:26:39PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> What this patch does is to make it so that if someone explicitly sets CONFIG_XSM_FLASK_POLICY=y, but doesn’t have checkpolicy, the build system will silently disable the policy behind their backs without telling them?
FYI, silenty disabling unavailable config options is actually
documented, in "INSTALL", section "Xen Hypervisor". ;-) Well kind of.
--
Anthony PERARD
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-16 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-14 16:17 [XEN PATCH] xen: allow XSM_FLASK_POLICY only if checkpolicy binary is available Anthony PERARD
2021-07-14 16:51 ` Jason Andryuk
2021-07-14 17:09 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-07-15 6:25 ` Jan Beulich
2021-07-16 12:36 ` Anthony PERARD
2021-07-16 13:15 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-07-16 14:34 ` Jan Beulich
2021-07-16 16:23 ` Anthony PERARD
2021-07-16 12:38 ` [XEN PATCH v2] " Anthony PERARD
2021-07-16 13:00 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-07-19 7:37 ` Jan Beulich
2021-07-19 10:47 ` Anthony PERARD
2021-07-19 11:04 ` Jan Beulich
2021-07-19 14:33 ` George Dunlap
2021-07-16 15:26 ` [XEN PATCH] " George Dunlap
2021-07-16 15:50 ` Juergen Gross
2021-07-16 15:56 ` Anthony PERARD
2021-07-16 16:14 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-07-19 7:10 ` Jan Beulich
2021-07-16 16:27 ` Anthony PERARD [this message]
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