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List:       linux-security-module
Subject:    patching Cobalt Qube machines
From:       Russell Coker <russell () coker ! com ! au>
Date:       2002-06-16 10:37:10
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I'm trying to get LSM to build on a Cobalt Qube.

I took the kernel source 2.4.16C10 that Sun ships to special people (the 
sales people deny having 2.4 kernel support), removed the XFS, kdb, and kdgb 
patches and made a diff against the regular 2.4.16 kernel.  Then I fixed the 
errors applying this to 2.4.18 (mostly code that Sun had back-ported to 
2.4.16 as well as some SPARC specific stuff that I just removed - Cobalt 
machines never have SPARC processors anyway).  After getting my new 2.4.18 
kernel booting on a Qube I tried applying the LSM patch.

I've attached a patch that conflicts with the LSM patch for your interest.  
It adds support for larger numbers of supplementary groups and allows the 
maximum to be changed at runtime.

I think this may be of interest because, this patch may end up in a main-line 
kernel at some future time and someone here is probably interested in 
supporting all the Cobalt features in addition to LSM instead of replacing 
the entire OS on their Qube as I did.  Also there's plenty of people who are 
involved in kernel hacking here, maybe they'll like this patch.

-- 
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