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

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 12:17:54AM -0800, Crispin Cowan wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> 
> >I'm _really_ tired of all of the "empty" functions that all security
> >modules need to provide.  So here's a brute force patch that lets any
> >security module only set the functions that it wants to override.  If
> >the function is NULL, then the "dummy" function will be used instead.
> >
> Sounds good to me. So you're just creating a default null function, and 
> then stuffing all the stubs with a pointer to that function?

No, it uses the dummy_* function that matches that function type if you
do not specify the function.  Look at the definition of the
set_to_dummy_if_null() macro for how it works.

thanks,

greg k-h