Re: [PATCH v5 03/12] S.A.R.A.: cred blob management

From: James Morris
Date: Fri Jul 12 2019 - 19:37:26 EST


On Sat, 6 Jul 2019, Salvatore Mesoraca wrote:

> Creation of the S.A.R.A. cred blob management "API".
> In order to allow S.A.R.A. to be stackable with other LSMs, it doesn't use
> the "security" field of struct cred, instead it uses an ad hoc field named
> security_sara.
> This solution is probably not acceptable for upstream, so this part will
> be modified as soon as the LSM stackable cred blob management will be
> available.

This description is out of date wrt cred blob sharing.

> + if (sara_data_init()) {
> + pr_crit("impossible to initialize creds.\n");
> + goto error;
> + }
> +

> +int __init sara_data_init(void)
> +{
> + security_add_hooks(data_hooks, ARRAY_SIZE(data_hooks), "sara");
> + return 0;
> +}

This can't fail so make it return void and simplify the caller.



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James Morris
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