Re: [RFC] [PATCH] [1/6] LSM Stacking: Replace LSM void* with arrays

From: Chris Wright
Date: Thu Nov 04 2004 - 17:55:05 EST


* Serge Hallyn (hallyn@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> The attached patch replaced the LSM security fields on kernel
> objects with an array of pointers, so that more than 1 LSM
> can annotate information on kernel objects.

This will add (default) 12 extra bytes to each LSM tagged object
(including inodes, which a quick snapshot on my system is ~365000 inodes ==
~4M). Also, I don't think the assignment loop should be exposed to core.

thanks,
-chris
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