Re: [PATCH 2/2] doc: Fix fs_context_parse_param description in mount_api.rst

From: Roberto Sassu
Date: Mon Dec 12 2022 - 03:36:13 EST


On Fri, 2022-12-09 at 12:41 -0500, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 3:30 AM Roberto Sassu
> <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Align with the description of fs_context_parse_param in lsm_hooks.h, which
> > seems the right one according to the code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.rst | 9 ++++-----
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> I'm going to leave this patch as a "hold" for right now. The existing
> text is arguably not great, but I'm not really in love with the
> replacement text taken from the LSM hook comments; given the merge
> window opens in a couple of days, we don't have much time to fiddle
> with the wording so let's just hold this for a little bit.
>
> These comment corrections (which are very welcome!) have also reminded
> me that we really should move the hook comment blocks out of the
> header file and into security.c like every other kernel function.
> This should help increase their discoverability while also making it
> easier to maintain the comments over time. I'm going to post a first
> pass at this as soon as the merge window closes, and once that is done
> we can do further work to cleanup the descriptions and add more detail
> (including notes both for the other kernel subsystems that call the
> hooks and the LSM devs who provide implementations).

Ok, great!

Roberto