Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

[Casey Schaufler]

--- Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:


> Anyways; if someone wants to cripple their security for some
> performance this way they can surely do this; but i don't think we should 
> offer it as a default configuration option (just as we don't have a 
> CONFIG_NULL_LSM even though there are undoubtedly systems that don't
> care about permission checking[1]) 
> 
> -Andi
> 
> [1] I bet I gave the linux-tiny crowd an idea now ;-)

You would need authoritative LSM hooks for this. The current LSM
additional restrictions model does not provide for this.


Casey Schaufler
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