Re: [TOMOYO #15 0/8] TOMOYO Linux

[Toshiharu Harada]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Sun 2009-02-22 23:27:34, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > On Thu 2009-02-12 16:34:16, James Morris wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Kentaro Takeda wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > TOMOYO Linux is a name-based MAC extension (LSM module) for the Linux kernel.
> > > > Applied to 
> > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next
> > > Does that mean tomoyo is scheduled for 2.6.30?
> > TOMOYO is already in linux-next tree and ready to go into 2.6.30 .
>
> Last time I looked it included script parser and some
> interpretter... Was that solved?
> 									Pavel

Are you talking about the interface between
userland and kernel regarding string data?

Linus once said in a Smack thread (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/5/129) 
> > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 12:28:48PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Can we avoid string parsers in the kernel?
> >
> > Ok, Could someone suggest a better idea please ?. 
>
> I personally think string parsers are *much* better than the alternatives 
> (which basically boil down to nasty binary interfaces)
>
> > I thought about packing the rules in a structure and sending
> > it over an ioctl() command. Is this applicable ?
>
> That's *MUCH* worse.
>
> Strings are nice. They aren't that complex, and as long as it's not a 
> performance-critical area, there are basically no downsides.
>
> Binary structures and ioctl's are *much* worse. They are totally 
> undebuggable with generic tools (think "echo" or "strace"), and they are a 
> total nightmare to parse across architectures and pointer sizes.
>
> So the rule should be: always use strings if at all possible and relevant.
> If the data is fundamentally binary, it shouldn't be re-coded to ascii
> (no real advantage), but if the data is "stringish", and there aren't
> big performance issues, then keep it as strings.

Admiring your concern, I would like to follow the above directions.

Best regards,
Toshiharu Harada

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