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From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>, Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>,
	Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT] Security subsystem updates for 3.7
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:02:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1349272974.2526.1.camel@falcor> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lifn51pk.fsf@xmission.com>

On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 02:44 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:35 AM, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> wrote:
> >> Highlights:
> >>
> >> - Integrity: add local fs integrity verification to detect offline attacks
> >> - Integrity: add digital signature verification
> >
> > Ok, the integrity changes in particular clashed with the new user
> > namespace support by Eric Biederman.
> >
> > The clashes weren't all that big, but there have been semantic changes
> > in this area, and I'd like Eric to please check that I resolved it
> > correctly, and the integrity people to double-check my changes to the
> > "fowner" field.
> >
> > Mimi, Dmitry, Eric? Please check my current git tree, in particular
> > the security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c file, but I think Eric should
> > look at the kernel/auditsc.c merge too, in case I missed something.
> 
> Those two resolutions look good to me.   Those were the resolutions
> I came up with in dealing with linux-next, so they have a modest amount
> of testing.

Thanks, the ima_policy.c changes look good to me too.

Mimi

> Elsewhere I have found issues in yama_lsm and drivers/staging/dgrp,
> patches after I have slept.
> 
> Eric
> 




      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-03 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-02 11:35 [GIT] Security subsystem updates for 3.7 James Morris
2012-10-03  4:46 ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]   ` <87lifn51pk.fsf@xmission.com>
2012-10-03 14:02     ` Mimi Zohar [this message]

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