[PATCH] Add audit uid to netlink credentials

Stephen Smalley sds at tycho.nsa.gov
Thu Feb 10 12:51:23 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 07:36, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> Why not just call the security handler from the security_netlink_send()
> function, which is already called by netlink_sendmsg()?

Ok, I can see why you wouldn't want to do that, but why not just call
the handler immediately after security_netlink_send() then in
netlink_sendmsg()?  What is the advantage of deferring to
netlink_sendskb (and some other location for broadcasts)?

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Stephen Smalley <sds at tycho.nsa.gov>
National Security Agency




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