Re: [PATCH] apparmor: fix SECURITY_APPARMOR_HASH_DEFAULT parameter handling

From: John Johansen
Date: Tue Jul 26 2016 - 12:56:17 EST


On 07/26/2016 04:38 AM, James Morris wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2016, John Johansen wrote:
>
>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>> The newly added Kconfig option could never work and just causes a build error
>> when disabled:
>>
>> security/apparmor/lsm.c:675:25: error: 'CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR_HASH_DEFAULT' undeclared here (not in a function)
>> bool aa_g_hash_policy = CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR_HASH_DEFAULT;
>>
>> The problem is that the macro undefined in this case, and we need to use the IS_ENABLED()
>> helper to turn it into a boolean constant.
>>
>> Another minor problem with the original patch is that the option is even offered
>> in sysfs when SECURITY_APPARMOR_HASH is not enabled, so this also hides the option
>> in that case.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>> Fixes: 6059f71f1e94 ("apparmor: add parameter to control whether policy hashing is used")
>> Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Please rebase this against current Linus.
>
Well this is a fix for a patch in the security next queue, so linus doesn't
have it yet. I can wait for your 4.8 pull request and rebase then