Re: [PATCH 2/4] integrity: Linux Integrity Module(LIM)

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Nov 20 2008 - 14:26:25 EST


On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:21:38PM -0500, david safford wrote:
> The consensus in the (insane) security community was to have an
> interface with selectable modules similar to LSM and its modules,
> so that users could easily choose among a set of integrity providers.

So what other integrity provider is there waiting to be merged? Unless
there is a realistic mid-term candidate it's just pure bloat, and we
can introduce an abstraction once it's actually needed.

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