On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 2:23 PM, David Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Paul Moore <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 10:07:27 -0400
>
>> "While marking the LSM hook structure doesn't directly affect the
>> SELinux netfilter hooks, once we remove the ability to deregister the
>> LSM hooks we will have no need to support deregistering netfilter
>> hooks and I expect we will drop that functionality as well to help
>> decrease the risk of tampering."
>
> This is not a reasonable postiion.
>
> The performance implications are non-trivial for using netfilter hooks
> when they aren't actually needed.

With all due respect, I think you've taken what I consider to be some
unreasonable positions when it comes to the network stack and LSMs in
the past.  We have different perspectives and different priorities as
a result, from my perspective the security advantage gained by
eliminating the ability to disable SELinux at runtime is more
important.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com

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