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Checking the history = it looks like this commit has been in linux-next for quite a while (at least 2 months); there were no emails on LKML about this commit at all. I asked Boqun and as a maintainer of the file he's not aware of such change= s being made. This commit is being added to linux-next via the TOMOYO securit= y module tree; checking the merge it appears that none of the changes pulled = in via the TOMOYO tree is related to LSM at all: e07d10ed0f23 lib/Kconfig.debug: enable CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT for syzbot kernels= . 8f598d86dc9c net: add "struct dst_entry" debugging 295e1a24166f net: update dev_put()/dev_hold() debugging ca65ccfdc5b3 locking/lockdep: make lockdep_print_held_locks() always print = if CONFIG_DEBUG_AID_FOR_SYZBOT=3Dy 83d2b1cd5d27 lib/Kconfig.debug: add CONFIG_DEBUG_AID_FOR_SYZBOT option For obvious reasons I have concern about this practice; being a maintainer shouldn't mean that you're allowed to add random stuff to linux-next. This reminds me of another case last month https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260604210704.41751-1-ojeda@kernel.org/ where = the added stuff via TOMOYO tree breaks Rust build on linux-next. I think this practice is questionable and I would like a clarification on the policy of adding stuff that is not upstream material. I recognize that there is a need to add commits that serve as testing and debugging purpose to linux-next, but I think any of these changes should be temporary in nature and have acknowledgement from maintainers of touched co= de. Perhaps these changes should also be in a separate topic branch which gets pulled from linux-next temporarily. Best, Gary