On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 9:45 AM Jiri Benc <jbenc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 11:38:21 -0000, GitLab Bridge on behalf of pbrobinson wrote:
> > From: Jonathan Lebon <jlebon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patch does for `getxattr` what commit 3e3e24b42043 ("selinux: allow
> > labeling before policy is loaded") did for `setxattr`; it allows
> > querying the current SELinux label on disk before the policy is loaded.
> >
> > One of the motivations described in that commit message also drives this
> > patch: for Fedora CoreOS (and eventually RHEL CoreOS), we want to be
> > able to move the root filesystem for example, from xfs to ext4 on RAID,
> > on first boot, at initrd time.[1]
> >
> > Because such an operation works at the filesystem level, we need to be
> > able to read the SELinux labels first from the original root, and apply
> > them to the files of the new root. The previous commit enabled the
> > second part of this process; this commit enables the first part.
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/94
> >
> > Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lebon <jlebon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It doesn't seem the patch has been accepted upstream? Could you please
> clarify that?
>
Upstream in the Rawhide context will always be a maintainer's next
tree, if it were in linus' tree, it wouldn't need a patch.
Justin
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