Re: Make RCU dcache work with CONFIG_SECURITY=y

Linus Torvalds
2011-04-22T23:30:13Z

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 11:26 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> Comments? I'd really like to see/hear feedback like "yeah, this looks
>> really obviously safe" vs "yeah, looks good, but I really don't feel
>> very comfortable with it" from the security people.
>
> From an SELinux PoV (And I feel semi confident about SMACK) patch 1/3
> can and should go in as soon as you want.  2/3 looked safe on first
> glance, but I think I can make it smaller and better.  I'll try to get a
> version of 2/3 on list in the next couple of days.  My first thought was
> that it should probably go in via my SELinux tree next window......

Ok, given the pretty obvious nature of 1/3 and no objections, I
committed that one.

Let's see what the situation with 2/3 is. It would be good to not have
slower path lookup for all the selinux-using people, but whatever.

Linus