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Re: [PATCH 06/37] Security: Separate task security context from task_struct

From: James Morris <jmorris_at_nospam>
Date: Mon Feb 11 2008 - 10:43:47 GMT
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, David Howells wrote:

> Separate the task security context from task_struct. At this point, the
> security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers
> pointing to it.
>
> Alpha needs further alteration as it refers to UID & GID in entry.S via asm
> offsets.
>
> Sparc needs further alteration as it refers to UID & GID in sclow.S via asm
> offsets.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

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