James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au> writes:
> On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Greg KH wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:59:10PM +0100, Olaf Dietsche wrote:
>> > > VERIFY_STRUCT(struct security_operations, ops, err);
>> >
>> > This shouldn't be necessary anymore.
>>
>> Good point, I'll remove it. It was a hack anyway :)
>>
>
> I think we still want to make sure that the module author has explicitly
> accounted for all of the hooks, in case new hooks are added.
VERIFY_STRUCT() now verifies, wether security_fixup_ops() has done its
job. So it does no harm, but it is useless, nevertheless.
If you want to check, wether a module has been recompiled, you should
add a length/sizeof(struct security_operations) parameter.
Regards, Olaf.
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