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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 12:44:41 -0800
From: Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>, jmorris@...ei.org,
 linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] security: mark LSM hooks as __ro_after_init

On 2/13/2017 2:33 AM, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> James Morris wrote:
>> As the regsitration of LSMs is performed during init and then does
>> not change, we can mark all of the regsitration hooks as __ro_after_init.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>
> This patch makes LKM based LSMs (e.g. AKARI) impossible.

When a mechanism to do LKM based modules work is proposed
it could include ifdef's around the __ro_after_init. I'm
assuming that enabling LKM modules is something we'd want to
make optional.

> I'm not happy with this patch.
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