On 2021-03-05 12:56, Paul Moore wrote: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 9:03 PM Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > As many of you are aware, normally with the close of the merge window > > and the release of -rc1 I typically reset the selinux/next and > > audit/next branches to Linus' -rc1 tag. However, as you may have > > heard already, there is a nasty problem with the early v5.12 kernels, > > including -rc1, which could result in some fairly serious fs > > corruption (see the LWN article below). With that in mind, I'm not > > going to reset the selinux/next and audit/next branches for this > > development cycle ... > > That idea was spectacularly short lived :/ Assuming -rc2 fixes the > swapfile bug, I'll plan on rebasing both -next branches to -rc2 early > next week. This should have zero impact on the audit tree (audit/next > is current empty), and a minimal impact on the selinux/next branch as > we only have one small patch in there at the moment. Well, it appears you are far from the only subsystem maintainer doing that for this cycle. > If for some reason this causes anyone a problem due to merge > conflicts, you can still submit your patches (assuming they apply > cleanly to the stable-5.12 branch) and I'll take care of the conflict. > > Thanks for your understanding. > > -- > paul moore - RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> Sr. S/W Engineer, Kernel Security, Base Operating Systems Remote, Ottawa, Red Hat Canada IRC: rgb, SunRaycer Voice: +1.647.777.2635, Internal: (81) 32635
