Re: [GIT PULL] SELinux patches for v5.8
From: Casey Schaufler
Date: Wed Jun 03 2020 - 18:38:51 EST
On 6/3/2020 3:12 PM, James Morris wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jun 2020, Casey Schaufler wrote:
>
>> The use of security modules was expected to be rare.
> This is not correct. Capabilities were ported to LSM and stacked from the
> beginning, and several major distros worked on LSM so they could ship
> their own security modules.
Capabilities has always been a special case.
Until Android adopted SELinux the actual use of LSMs was rare.