From: Paul Moore To: James Morris Subject: Re: [PATCH] selinux: deprecate and schedule the removal of the the compat_net functionality Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 18:00:11 -0500 Cc: Stephen Smalley , selinux@tycho.nsa.gov References: <20081201203833.16302.16424.stgit@flek.lan> <200812011615.17013.paul.moore@hp.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200812011800.11552.paul.moore@hp.com> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On Monday 01 December 2008 5:49:48 pm James Morris wrote: > On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Paul Moore wrote: > > On Monday 01 December 2008 4:03:35 pm Stephen Smalley wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 15:38 -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > > > > This patch is the first step towards removing the old > > > > "compat_net" code from the kernel. Secmark, the "compat_net" > > > > replacement has been around for several kernel releases > > > > > > FWIW, secmark was first included in the Linux 2.6.18 release in > > > Sep 2006. That's a bit more than "several kernel releases" ;) > > > > Po-tay-to ... Po-tah-to ;) > > > > If the patch gets bounced for some reason I'll update the text. > > Which brings up a good point; James, assuming there are no > > objections do you want to pull this into the security-testing tree > > for 2.6.29 or would you prefer I keep it in the lblnet tree? > > Doesn't matter, unless there's a conflict. Okey dokey, I'll go ahead and add it then so that I'm the one that gets yelled at if/when linux-next breaks on somebody's box. I'll probably merge it in tomorrow, I just found a NULL pointer oops that I need to address (in a different chunk of code). > Acked-by: James Morris -- paul moore linux @ hp -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.