From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ACA9C433E7 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:38:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36A5620866 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:38:26 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1602862706; bh=wgXOoHVkVPjnMrqcgErkRfYElHlsFkJdpJKZOEHflzY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=G966vFx0aOi+8WDFuLeW+f7RpyHsB4s+Xb6mV4jV3tyiZ7+7nrvkCwTvSOCDAEkGo 3cBdjSpLGofc3OYyKNKuYF3mMIY4pMef0nQ/C6WL6bg59klK/JJ8S710KVxQcTOPei M3dN6iZOk12pyuLlC2TOBKy41VanLqNLf7R1xOss= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2408458AbgJPPiZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:38:25 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:55722 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2408427AbgJPPiZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:38:25 -0400 Received: from localhost (c-73-47-72-35.hsd1.nh.comcast.net [73.47.72.35]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D3B41207DE; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:38:24 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1602862705; bh=wgXOoHVkVPjnMrqcgErkRfYElHlsFkJdpJKZOEHflzY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=GOXom/y3bd47t/YLEAhgSEQ1l/L0yvd95y0T9YHf9ML0jENkmAQxf5Ri5jmXGgqU2 KCxPhTg3LIDHyvLm0J7VYNWhwVHg6fnRmryypMQ5Np5FedltLTyB7cvGc+W1Of4PGr 5MvSH53ZS7gtmkjRdqzlEL8MxxYqJVAhmFdQZkJg= Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:38:23 -0400 From: Sasha Levin To: Greg KH Cc: Daniel Burgener , stable@vger.kernel.org, stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com, paul@paul-moore.com, selinux@vger.kernel.org, jmorris@namei.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5.4 v2 0/4] Update SELinuxfs out of tree and then swapover Message-ID: <20201016153823.GA2415204@sasha-vm> References: <20201016134835.1886478-1-dburgener@linux.microsoft.com> <20201016150120.GB1807231@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20201016150120.GB1807231@kroah.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: selinux@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 05:01:20PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: >On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 09:48:31AM -0400, Daniel Burgener wrote: >> v2: Include all commits from original series, and include commit ids >> >> This is a backport for stable of my series to fix a race condition in >> selinuxfs during policy load: > >Has this race condition always been present, or is this a regression >that is being fixed from previously working kernels? So this issue has always been there, but: >If it's always been present, why not just use 5.9 to solve it? Because it was merged for 5.10 rather than 5.9, which is a few months out, so Daniel is looking to see if we can have it in 5.8/5.4 to close the gap. -- Thanks, Sasha