This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
evm: mark evm_fixmode as __ro_after_init
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
evm-mark-evm_fixmode-as-__ro_after_init.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 32ba540f3c2a7ef61ed5a577ce25069a3d714fc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Austin Kim <austin.kim@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:26:42 +0100
Subject: evm: mark evm_fixmode as __ro_after_init
From: Austin Kim <austin.kim@xxxxxxx>
commit 32ba540f3c2a7ef61ed5a577ce25069a3d714fc9 upstream.
The evm_fixmode is only configurable by command-line option and it is never
modified outside initcalls, so declaring it with __ro_after_init is better.
Signed-off-by: Austin Kim <austin.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
+++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ char *evm_config_xattrnames[] = {
NULL
};
-static int evm_fixmode;
+static int evm_fixmode __ro_after_init;
static int __init evm_set_fixmode(char *str)
{
if (strncmp(str, "fix", 3) == 0)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from austin.kim@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/alsa-synth-missing-check-for-possible-null-after-the-call-to-kstrdup.patch
queue-4.9/evm-mark-evm_fixmode-as-__ro_after_init.patch
