Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] LSM: Make security_hook_heads a local variable. | From | Igor Stoppa <> | Date | Mon, 22 May 2017 22:50:09 +0300 |
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On 22/05/17 18:09, Casey Schaufler wrote: > On 5/22/2017 7:03 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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>> But even with those we can still chain >> them together with a list with external linkage. > > I gave up that approach in 2012. Too many unnecessary calls to > null functions, and massive function vectors with a tiny number > of non-null entries. From a data structure standpoint, it was > just wrong. The list scheme is exactly right for the task at > hand.
I understand this as a green light, for me to continue with the plan of using LSM Hooks as example for making dynamically allocated data become read-only, using also Tetsuo's patch (thanks, btw).
Is that correct?
--- thanks, igor
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