Re: [PATCH v3] selinux: measure state and policy capabilities

From: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@linux.microsoft.com>
To: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	zohar@linux.ibm.com,
	Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>,
	tusharsu@linux.microsoft.com, tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com,
	casey@schaufler-ca.com, agk@redhat.com, snitzer@redhat.com,
	gmazyland@gmail.com, sashal@kernel.org,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, selinux@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] selinux: measure state and policy capabilities
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 16:43:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <af3b4070-7474-984b-72a1-be7db736cc47@linux.microsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHC9VhQEAPB_kQFxBrJWtsL8wP9YoQkCzXnXmaD5gm9duBzYcQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/8/21 4:42 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 2:29 PM Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
> <nramas@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> On 3/5/21 11:22 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
>>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 12:57 PM James Bottomley
>>> <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2021-03-05 at 12:52 -0500, Paul Moore wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>> This draft seems fine to me, but there is a small logistical blocker
>>>>> at the moment which means I can't merge this until -rc2 is released,
>>>>> which likely means this coming Monday.  The problem is that this
>>>>> patch relies on code that went upstream via in the last merge window
>>>>> via the IMA tree, not the SELinux tree; normally that wouldn't be a
>>>>> problem as I typically rebase the selinux/next to Linus' -rc1 tag
>>>>> once the merge window is closed, but in this particular case the -rc1
>>>>> tag is dangerously broken for some system configurations (the tag has
>>>>> since been renamed) so I'm not rebasing onto -rc1 this time around.
>>>>>
>>>>> Assuming that -rc2 fixes the swapfile/fs-corruption problem, early
>>>>> next week I'll rebase selinux/next to -rc2 and merge this patch.
>>>>> However, if the swapfile bug continues past -rc2 we can consider
>>>>> merging this via the IMA tree, but I'd assume not do that if possible
>>>>> due to merge conflict and testing reasons.
>>>>
>>>> If it helps, we rebased the SCSI tree on top of the merge for the
>>>> swapfile fix which is this one, without waiting for -rc2:
>>>
>>> Considering that -rc2 is only two days away I'm not going to lose a
>>> lot of sleep over it.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for reviewing the patch.
>>
>> I can wait until the swapfile issue is resolved (in rc2 or later) and
>> you are able to merge this patch. Please take your time.
> 
> Thanks for your patience Lakshmi, I just merged this into my local
> selinux/next branch and will be pushing it up to kernel.org later
> tonight - thank you!
> 

Thanks Paul.

  -lakshmi