Re: [PATCH BUGFIX -rc3] Smack: Don't register smackfs if we're notloaded

[Ahmed S. Darwish]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:44:45PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 09:45:04AM -0800, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> > > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
...
> > > 
> > > What is the oops? Why does it happen?
> ...
> > 
> > One solution would be to tighten the smackfs code so that it
> > handles the uninitialized LSM case properly.
> > 
> 
> IMHO no smackfs code should ever execute if smack isn't loaded.
> 
> This means catching it from the very fist step where it registers
> itself in init_smk_fs instead of doing several if(we're enabled) cases
> in the code path.
> 
> The solution should be a _general_ solution, _not_ a SMACK one cause 
> SELinux sufferes from exactly the same problem.
> 

Not to be misunderstood here, I'm used to writing SMACK in capitals.
I ,ofcourse, don't mean shouting (never will).

Regards,

-- 

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Ahmed S. Darwish
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