From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-11.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 395B1C4338F for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2021 18:44:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 213FB60F22 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2021 18:44:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233279AbhHQSpb (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:45:31 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([216.205.24.124]:24716 "EHLO us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233187AbhHQSp3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:45:29 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1629225896; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=auhtyRdIsQsxVJf4Cbzc1RqurTkREX8CRqhC1P8hzbg=; b=fXbEMrAR83mZM5/StS/YDriJgTlEmXJ3WDwA8VQgr88+YjfBMoGcZh8qoBOv7rPHr1GUG7 Io5YfWUFR4xJYVckh8WOS4NYTcmb47pi6Ahc3dUtp1sD/Hyas1Em2SNwdCysPHUvm3DWwi /KN4F92Sy/JEuKEf2kkL04Jt8PGe1bA= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-411-PCiNuQWMNGKCZlm_AdTiJw-1; Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:44:54 -0400 X-MC-Unique: PCiNuQWMNGKCZlm_AdTiJw-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 25EE7107ACF5; Tue, 17 Aug 2021 18:44:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [10.40.195.34]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32DEE5DA60; Tue, 17 Aug 2021 18:44:51 +0000 (UTC) From: Petr Lautrbach To: Nicolas Iooss , Dominick Grift , James Carter , SElinux list Subject: Re: lets think about 3.3 release In-Reply-To: References: <87fsvmu2xa.fsf@redhat.com> <87tujy4r1g.fsf@defensec.nl> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 20:44:51 +0200 Message-ID: <87czqbkj18.fsf@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.14 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: selinux@vger.kernel.org Nicolas Iooss writes: > On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 4:44 PM Dominick Grift > wrote: >> >> James Carter writes: >> >> > On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 2:29 PM Petr Lautrbach wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> I's about 184 commits and 5 months since the last release so I think >> >> it's time to slowly stop the development and start with 3.3 release >> >> candidates. >> >> >> >> According to patchwork, there are few patches in queue which need to be >> >> reviewed, or which were reviewed and some change for requested: >> >> >> >> * https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11436955/ New [RFC] >> >> libsepol,secilc,policycoreutils: add unprivileged sandboxing >> >> capability >> >> * https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11668455/ New selinux: make use of variables when defining libdir and includedir >> >> >> >> old, without any activity for a long time >> >> >> >> * https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/12291637/ New [v2] checkpolicy: fix the leak memory when uses xperms >> >> >> >> changes requested >> >> >> >> * https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/12372487/ New [v2] libselinux: add lock callbacks >> >> * https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/12377593/ New libselinux/utils: drop requirement to combine compiling and linking >> >> >> >> no response yet >> >> >> >> * https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/12420657/ New [userspace] libsepol/cil: remove obsolete comment >> >> >> >> acked, ready to be merged >> >> >> >> * https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/12422971/ New mcstrans: Improve mlstrans-test output >> >> >> >> no response yet >> >> >> >> >> >> if I missed something please tell me. >> >> >> >> >> >> There's one issue opened on the mailing list >> >> >> >> https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/874kc57220.fsf@defensec.nl/T/#t - >> >> libsepol regressions >> >> >> > >> > I am working to address this and hope to have something out in the >> > next couple of days. I am also working on fixing some issues with the >> > line mark stuff in CIL. It would be nice to have both of these in the >> > next release, but I don't think they need to hold things up either. >> > Jim >> >> It's too soon for me to start worrying about this but: >> >> I don't care if my dssp5 policy breaks due to this regression (that is >> what it is) because other than me no one probably uses it, but I also >> maintain a policy for OpenWrt which relies on this functionality (or >> allowing duplicate blocks, macros) and I would not want to have this >> break there come 3.3. >> >> > >> >> If you agree and there's no obejction I can start with preparation and >> >> plan to release 3.3-rc1 on Wed Aug 18 2021 > > Hello, > For information I am currently on holidays with quite limited access > to my mails and will be fully "back with my test machines" on > 2021-08-30. In the meantime I can participate in some reviews but I am > not willing to send patches myself. Nevertheless I will try to review > the "libsepol/cil: move the fuzz target and build script to the > selinux repository" patch properly before Wednesday. > > For the release, I am currently aware of two possibly-minor issues and > I do not know whether they are tracked somewhere: > > 1. secil2tree can output wrongly indented blocks. For example > "secil2tree -A resolve secilc/test/policy.cil" currently outputs: > > (block test_ba > (blockinherit ba) > (roletype test_ba.r test_ba.t) > (blockabstract z.ba) > ) > (role test_ba.r) > (type test_ba.t) > ) > > The parenthesizing "(blockinherit ba) ... )" is wrong. The > "(blockinherit ba)" could be replaced with a comment indicating that a > blockinherit was expanded. > > 2. semanage's gettext setup is currently incompatible with Python > 3.10. More precisely > https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/gettext.html#gettext.install > indicates: "Deprecated since version 3.8, will be removed in version > 3.10: The codeset parameter.". When I stumbled upon this issue, it > occured to me that the whole try-except statement in > https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/blob/libsemanage-3.2/python/semanage/semanage#L34-L49 > could be replaced with "import gettext" (which is a built-in module in > Python 3) and "gettext.install(PROGNAME, > localedir="/usr/share/locale")". Nevertheless I did not find time to > properly test this change, which is why I have not sent patches for it > sooner. > > In my opinion, the first issue is not a release-blocker because > "secil2tree -A resolve" is not expected to output a CIL policy which > can be compiled. The second one could be, if we want to support Python > 3.10 (which will be released in October) with the 3.3 release. > Thanks everybody. Based on the input, I will not prepare rc1 tomorrow. And I'll be offline next week so lets postpone rc1 to Wed Sep 08 2021. Petr