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 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 :)

thanks,

greg k-h



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