Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Dec 2002 13:00:27 +1100 (EST) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] LSM fix for stupid "empty" functions |
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On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Greg KH wrote:
> > I think we still want to make sure that the module author has explicitly > > accounted for all of the hooks, in case new hooks are added. > > But with this patch, if the module author hasn't specified a hook, they > get the "dummy" ones. So the structure should always be full of > pointers, making the VERIFY_STRUCT macro pointless.
Yes, but defaulting unspecified hooks to dummy operations could be dangerous. A module might appear to compile and run perfectly well, but be missing some important new hook.
- James -- James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
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