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 5.4-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-5.4 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 @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static struct xattr_list evm_config_defa LIST_HEAD(evm_config_xattrnames); -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-5.4/alsa-synth-missing-check-for-possible-null-after-the-call-to-kstrdup.patch queue-5.4/evm-mark-evm_fixmode-as-__ro_after_init.patch