Re: [PATCH] kobject support for LSM core (v2)

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* Petr Baudis (pasky@ucw.cz) wrote:
>
> At the time of security_scaffolding_setup(), sysfs is not mounted yet, thus
> subsystem_register() returns -EFAULT and is unsuccessful.

yup, same problem with the early init patch.

> A lot of LSMs use various ad hoc methods for communication with the userspace
> and using the sysfs framework could be very convient for them, and there is at

This would be more compelling if you could convert something in the LSM
tree to using it. Right now, this patch just adds something that is not
clearly needed. What about converting DTE to use this new subsystem?

thanks,
-chris

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