From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
selinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, brauner@kernel.org, jack@suse.cz,
kees@kernel.org, casey@schaufler-ca.com,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
john.johansen@canonical.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 31/39] convert selinuxfs
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:46:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250922134623.GS39973@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEjxPJ4Ez1oYXa4hEcSLSrO+ikLN0kgrWQc+2n2K7wWoy7a7pQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 08:34:02AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> Is there a reason why these patches weren't sent to selinux list in
> the first place?
Will Cc on the next posting of that series.
> In any event, yes, Android userspace (in particular the Android init
> program) relies on /sys/fs/selinux/null at a point where /dev/null
> does not yet exist [1]. Hence, I don't believe we can drop it since it
> would break userspace.
Pity. Oh, well...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-22 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-20 7:41 [PATCHES][RFC] the meat of tree-in-dcache series Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 01/39] new helper: simple_remove_by_name() Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 02/39] new helper: simple_done_creating() Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 03/39] introduce a flag for explicitly marking persistently pinned dentries Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 04/39] primitives for maintaining persisitency Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 05/39] convert simple_{link,unlink,rmdir,rename,fill_super}() to new primitives Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 06/39] convert ramfs and tmpfs Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 07/39] procfs: make /self and /thread_self dentries persistent Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 08/39] configfs, securityfs: kill_litter_super() not needed Al Viro
2025-09-24 16:56 ` Joel Becker
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 09/39] convert xenfs Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 10/39] convert smackfs Al Viro
2025-09-22 15:11 ` Casey Schaufler
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 11/39] convert hugetlbfs Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 12/39] convert mqueue Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 13/39] convert bpf Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 14/39] convert dlmfs Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 15/39] convert fuse_ctl Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 16/39] convert pstore Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 17/39] convert tracefs Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 18/39] convert debugfs Al Viro
2025-09-23 8:10 ` Greg KH
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 19/39] debugfs: remove duplicate checks in callers of start_creating() Al Viro
2025-09-23 8:10 ` Greg KH
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 20/39] convert efivarfs Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 21/39] convert spufs Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 22/39] convert ibmasmfs Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 23/39] ibmasmfs: get rid of ibmasmfs_dir_ops Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 24/39] convert devpts Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 25/39] binderfs: use simple_start_creating() Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 26/39] binderfs_binder_ctl_create(): kill a bogus check Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 27/39] convert binderfs Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 28/39] autofs_{rmdir,unlink}: dentry->d_fsdata->dentry == dentry there Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 29/39] convert autofs Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 30/39] convert binfmt_misc Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 31/39] convert selinuxfs Al Viro
2025-09-21 20:44 ` Paul Moore
2025-09-21 21:41 ` Al Viro
2025-09-22 2:45 ` Paul Moore
2025-09-22 12:34 ` Stephen Smalley
2025-09-22 13:46 ` Al Viro [this message]
2025-09-22 21:12 ` John Johansen
2025-09-21 22:26 ` Al Viro
2025-09-22 2:50 ` Paul Moore
2025-09-22 3:52 ` Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 32/39] functionfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name() Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 33/39] convert functionfs Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 34/39] gadgetfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name() Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 35/39] convert gadgetfs Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 36/39] hypfs: don't pin dentries twice Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 37/39] hypfs: switch hypfs_create_str() to returning int Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 38/39] hypfs: swich hypfs_create_u64() " Al Viro
2025-09-20 7:47 ` [PATCH 39/39] convert hypfs Al Viro
2025-09-20 16:26 ` [PATCHES][RFC] the meat of tree-in-dcache series Linus Torvalds
2025-09-20 18:09 ` Al Viro
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