Re: [PATCH v5.4 v2 0/4] Update SELinuxfs out of tree and then swapover

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On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 12:01 PM Daniel Burgener
<dburgener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/16/20 11:49 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 05:44:43PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 11:38:23AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 05:01:20PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> >>> > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 09:48:31AM -0400, Daniel Burgener wrote:
> >>> > > v2: Include all commits from original series, and include commit
> >>> ids
> >>> > >
> >>> > > This is a backport for stable of my series to fix a race
> >>> condition in
> >>> > > selinuxfs during policy load:
> >>> >
> >>> > Has this race condition always been present, or is this a regression
> >>> > that is being fixed from previously working kernels?
> >>>
> >>> So this issue has always been there, but:
> >>>
> >>> > If it's always been present, why not just use 5.9 to solve it?
> >>>
> >>> Because it was merged for 5.10 rather than 5.9, which is a few months
> >>> out, so Daniel is looking to see if we can have it in 5.8/5.4 to close
> >>> the gap.
> >>
> >> I would have to wait for 5.10-rc1 at the earliest, and get the selinux
> >> maintainers ack for this :)
> >
> > No objections; if the selinux folks feel unhappy with this it'll just
> > wait for 5.10.
> >
> Yes, that's fine from my end as well.  We can carry this series out of
> tree in the interim.  Thanks!

I tend to be pretty conservative when it comes to backporting patches
to -stable, and since this is both a) big and b) fixes a problem that
has existed since the dawn of selinuxfs (and possibly longer <g>) I
think the smart thing to do is to wait for v5.10.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com



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