On 9/5/20 11:13 AM, Casey Schaufler wrote: > On 9/5/2020 6:25 AM, Paul Moore wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 7:58 PM Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 9/4/2020 2:53 PM, Paul Moore wrote: >>>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 5:35 PM Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> On 9/4/2020 1:08 PM, Paul Moore wrote: >> ... >> >>>> I understand the concerns you mention, they are all valid as far as >>>> I'm concerned, but I think we are going to get burned by this code as >>>> it currently stands. >>> Yes, I can see that. We're getting burned by the non-extensibility >>> of secids. It will take someone smarter than me to figure out how to >>> fit N secids into 32bits without danger of either failure or memory >>> allocation. >> Sooo what are the next steps here? It sounds like there is some >> agreement that the currently proposed unix_skb_params approach is a >> problem, but it also sounds like you just want to merge it anyway? > > There are real problems with all the approaches. This is by far the > least invasive of the lot. If this is acceptable for now I will commit > to including the dynamic allocation version in the full stacking > (e.g. Smack + SELinux) stage. If it isn't, well, this stage is going > to take even longer than it already has. Sigh. > > >> I was sorta hoping for something a bit better. > > I will be looking at alternatives. I am very much open to suggestions. > I'm not even 100% convinced that Stephen's objections to my separate > allocation strategy outweigh its advantages. If you have an opinion on > that, I'd love to hear it. > fwiw I prefer the separate allocation strategy, but as you have already said it trading off one set of problems for another. I would rather see this move forward and one set of trade offs isn't significantly worse than the other to me so, either wfm.
