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    security: Convert LSM into a static interface · 20510f2f
    James Morris authored
    
    
    Convert LSM into a static interface, as the ability to unload a security
    module is not required by in-tree users and potentially complicates the
    overall security architecture.
    
    Needlessly exported LSM symbols have been unexported, to help reduce API
    abuse.
    
    Parameters for the capability and root_plug modules are now specified
    at boot.
    
    The SECURITY_FRAMEWORK_VERSION macro has also been removed.
    
    In a nutshell, there is no safe way to unload an LSM.  The modular interface
    is thus unecessary and broken infrastructure.  It is used only by out-of-tree
    modules, which are often binary-only, illegal, abusive of the API and
    dangerous, e.g.  silently re-vectoring SELinux.
    
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: USB Kconfig fix]
    [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: fix LSM kernel-doc]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
    Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
    Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com...
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