linux-stable-rt/security
James Morris 20510f2f4e security: Convert LSM into a static interface
Convert LSM into a static interface, as the ability to unload a security
module is not required by in-tree users and potentially complicates the
overall security architecture.

Needlessly exported LSM symbols have been unexported, to help reduce API
abuse.

Parameters for the capability and root_plug modules are now specified
at boot.

The SECURITY_FRAMEWORK_VERSION macro has also been removed.

In a nutshell, there is no safe way to unload an LSM.  The modular interface
is thus unecessary and broken infrastructure.  It is used only by out-of-tree
modules, which are often binary-only, illegal, abusive of the API and
dangerous, e.g.  silently re-vectoring SELinux.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: USB Kconfig fix]
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: fix LSM kernel-doc]
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:07 -07:00
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keys KEYS: Make request_key() and co fundamentally asynchronous 2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
selinux security: Convert LSM into a static interface 2007-10-17 08:43:07 -07:00
Kconfig security: Convert LSM into a static interface 2007-10-17 08:43:07 -07:00
Makefile
capability.c security: Convert LSM into a static interface 2007-10-17 08:43:07 -07:00
commoncap.c security: Convert LSM into a static interface 2007-10-17 08:43:07 -07:00
dummy.c security: Convert LSM into a static interface 2007-10-17 08:43:07 -07:00
inode.c
root_plug.c security: Convert LSM into a static interface 2007-10-17 08:43:07 -07:00
security.c security: Convert LSM into a static interface 2007-10-17 08:43:07 -07:00