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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Burgener <dburgener@linux.microsoft.com>,
	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
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 17:44:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201016154443.GA1818291@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201016153823.GA2415204@sasha-vm>

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 11:38:23AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> 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.

I would have to wait for 5.10-rc1 at the earliest, and get the selinux
maintainers ack for this :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-16 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-16 13:48 [PATCH v5.4 v2 0/4] Update SELinuxfs out of tree and then swapover Daniel Burgener
2020-10-16 13:48 ` [PATCH v5.4 v2 1/4] selinux: Create function for selinuxfs directory cleanup Daniel Burgener
2020-10-16 13:48 ` [PATCH v5.4 v2 2/4] selinux: Refactor selinuxfs directory populating functions Daniel Burgener
2020-10-16 13:48 ` [PATCH v5.4 v2 3/4] selinux: Standardize string literal usage for selinuxfs directory names Daniel Burgener
2020-10-16 13:48 ` [PATCH v5.4 v2 4/4] selinux: Create new booleans and class dirs out of tree Daniel Burgener
2020-10-16 15:01 ` [PATCH v5.4 v2 0/4] Update SELinuxfs out of tree and then swapover Greg KH
2020-10-16 15:38   ` Sasha Levin
2020-10-16 15:44     ` Greg KH [this message]
2020-10-16 15:49       ` Sasha Levin
2020-10-16 16:01         ` Daniel Burgener
2020-10-16 22:56           ` Paul Moore

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