Re: [PATCH 4/5] Make LSM Writable Hooks a command line option

[Igor Stoppa]

On 06/06/17 13:54, Tetsuo Handa wrote:

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> "Loading modules which are not compiled as built-in" is correct.
> My use case is to allow users to use LSM modules as loadable kernel
> modules which distributors do not compile as built-in.

Ok, so I suppose someone should eventually lock down the header, after
the additional modules are loaded.

Who decides when enough is enough, meaning that all the needed modules
are loaded?
Should I provide an interface to user-space? A sysfs entry?

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> Unloading LSM modules is dangerous. Only SELinux allows unloading
> at the risk of triggering an oops. If we insert delay while removing
> list elements, we can easily observe oops due to free function being
> called without corresponding allocation function.

Ok. But even in this case, the sys proposal would still work.
It would just stay unused.


--
igor