Re: [PATCH v12 0/5] Reduce overhead of LSMs with static calls

Kees Cook
2024-06-06T18:07:23Z

On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 12:36:03PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> It's in the queue, I've been swamped lately as you'll likely notice I
> haven't really had a chance to process patches yet during this cycle.

I get that you're busy, and I understand that situation -- I get swamped
too. The latency on LSM patch review has been very high lately, and I'm
hoping there's some way we could help. I assume other folks could jump
in and help with the queue[1], but I'm not sure if that would satisfy
your requirements? Other subsystems have been switching more and more to
a group maintainership system, etc. Are there other people you'd be
comfortable sharing the load with? (Currently James and Serge are also
listed as "M:" in MAINTAINERS, but I don't think the 3 of you have a
shared git.kernel.org tree, for example...)

And yes, there are a lot of patches up for review. I'm antsy about this
series in particular because I'm worried inaction is going to create
larger problems for the LSM as a whole. We've already had Linus drop
in and tell us to do better; I'd really like to avoid having him make
unilateral changes to the LSM, especially when we have a solution on
deck that has been reviewed by many people.

I will go back to being anxious/patient... ;)

-Kees

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-security-module/list/

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Kees Cook