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Re: [RFC] [PATCH] [3/6] LSM Stacking: capability LSM stacking support
| From: | Serge Hallyn <hallyn@cs.wm.edu> | |
| To: | Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> | |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] [3/6] LSM Stacking: capability LSM stacking support | |
| Date: | Thu, 04 Nov 2004 17:08:59 -0600 | |
| Cc: | Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> |
This patch adds stacking support to the POSIX Capability LSM.
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Index: linux-2.6.10-rc1-bk12-stack/security/capability.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.10-rc1-bk12-stack.orig/security/capability.c 2004-11-02
19:55:53.583063616 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.10-rc1-bk12-stack/security/capability.c 2004-11-02
20:10:16.850826968 -0600
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@
static int __init capability_init (void)
{
+ int rc;
+
if (capability_disable) {
printk(KERN_INFO "Capabilities disabled at initialization\n");
return 0;
@@ -67,7 +69,8 @@
/* register ourselves with the security framework */
if (register_security (&capability_ops)) {
/* try registering with primary module */
- if (mod_reg_security (MY_NAME, &capability_ops)) {
+ rc = mod_reg_security (MY_NAME, &capability_ops);
+ if (rc < 0) {
printk (KERN_INFO "Failure registering capabilities "
"with primary security module.\n");
return -EINVAL;
-
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