[PATCH security-next v2 18/26] LSM: Build ordered list of ordered LSMs for init

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 5:04 PM, Casey Schaufler [off-list ref] wrote:

On 9/20/2018 9:23 AM, Kees Cook wrote:

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This constructs a list of ordered LSMs to initialize, using a hard-coded
list of only "integrity": minor LSMs continue to have direct hook calls,
and major LSMs continue to initialize separately.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <redacted>

Do you think that this mechanism will be sufficiently
flexible to accommodate dynamically loaded security modules
in the future? While I am not personally an advocate of
dynamically loaded security modules I have been working to
ensure that I haven't done anything that would actively
interfere with someone who did.

I don't think it does, no. This is all just the boot time
initialization order, so a dynamic LSM would be unchanged: it would
initialize at module load time. :)

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security