From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-13.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1,USER_IN_DEF_DKIM_WL autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8217CC43457 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 14:02:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20F1D20874 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 14:02:16 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux.microsoft.com header.i=@linux.microsoft.com header.b="U5FRoc47" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2408486AbgJPOCP (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2020 10:02:15 -0400 Received: from linux.microsoft.com ([13.77.154.182]:55478 "EHLO linux.microsoft.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2408484AbgJPOCO (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2020 10:02:14 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (c-73-172-233-15.hsd1.md.comcast.net [73.172.233.15]) by linux.microsoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BE45F20B4905; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 07:02:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 linux.microsoft.com BE45F20B4905 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linux.microsoft.com; s=default; t=1602856934; bh=qcbjJMCp7USFDVcj8iNq//oHYBSyiNoJF1E9EF+q3A8=; h=Subject:To:Cc:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=U5FRoc47LmlvrbwzyFOo/iQ0hIEjfYiEJWz6OAOBUmk5JOylXoMEl7Htz/NB4vngf ovdugxUvZICE0qoDqpmu712BFaQY1t6Fkox63sEU0CQQezrsyamVM2/0rZO/Y5W7mf LVX/jdR8wbpBqE5puvT/UqR+1GmM/Yv3V1CYjCn4= Subject: Re: [PATCH v5.4 0/3] Update SELinuxfs out of tree and then swapover To: Paul Moore Cc: Greg KH , stable@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Smalley , selinux@vger.kernel.org, James Morris , sashal@kernel.org References: <20201015192956.1797021-1-dburgener@linux.microsoft.com> <20201016050036.GB461792@kroah.com> <9aeaa66d-d369-a1eb-7a07-08d9244585f3@linux.microsoft.com> From: Daniel Burgener Message-ID: <56101ae4-62fa-bff8-d24a-bb31c00a33e7@linux.microsoft.com> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 10:02:12 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org On 10/16/20 9:55 AM, Paul Moore wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 9:05 AM Daniel Burgener > wrote: >> Yes, thank you. I will fix up the series with the third commit >> included, and add commit ids. Thanks. > Greg and I have different opinions on what is classified as a good > candidate for the -stable trees, but in my opinion this patch series > doesn't qualify. There are a lot of dependencies, it is intertwined > with a lot of code, and the issue that this patchset fixes has been > around for a *long* time. I personally feel the risk of backporting > this to -stable does not outweigh the potential wins. > > My current opinion is that backporting this patchset is not a good > idea; it gets a NACK from me. > > Daniel, in the future if this is something you want to see backported > please bring this issue up on the SELinux mailing list when the > patchset is originally posted so we can have a discussion about it and > plan accordingly. > Noted.  Thanks for the feedback.  I will make sure to bring such things up with the selinux list in the future. -Daniel