--- "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The security_sb_post_mountroot() hook is long-since obsolete, and is > fundamentally broken: it is never invoked if someone uses initramfs. > This is particularly damaging, because the existence of this hook has > been used as motivation for not using initramfs. > > Stephen Smalley confirmed on 2007-07-19 that this hook was originally > used by SELinux but can now be safely removed: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118485683612916&w=2 > > Cc: Stephen Smalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Eric Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It is also the case that Smack does not use this hook. It can be removed as far as I'm concerned. Casey Schaufler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
