Re: [RFC] LSM fix for stupid "empty" functions

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 04:46:43AM +1100, James Morris wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:59:10PM +0100, Olaf Dietsche wrote:
> > > >  	VERIFY_STRUCT(struct security_operations, ops, err);
> > > 
> > > This shouldn't be necessary anymore.
> > 
> > Good point, I'll remove it.  It was a hack anyway :)
> > 
> 
> 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.

thanks,

greg k-h