From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751195Ab2ECEX7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2012 00:23:59 -0400 Received: from tundra.namei.org ([65.99.196.166]:37543 "EHLO tundra.namei.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750826Ab2ECEX4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2012 00:23:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 14:23:48 +1000 (EST) From: James Morris To: Mimi Zohar cc: Al Viro , "Jonathan Corbet , Kasatkin, Dmitry" , Linus Torvalds , Hugh Dickins , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Safford , David Miller , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC] situation with fput() locking (was Re: [PULL REQUEST] : ima-appraisal patches) In-Reply-To: <1335796351.1827.6.camel@falcor> Message-ID: References: <1334865448.2429.35.camel@falcor> <20120420004303.GB6871@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20120420190418.GK6871@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20120420195833.GM6871@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20120420221315.GN6871@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20120427173417.GK6871@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <1335796351.1827.6.camel@falcor> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LRH 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Mimi Zohar wrote: > Jon, thank you for summarizing the discussion - article > http://lwn.net/Articles/494158/. As Jake Edge's previous LWN article > http://lwn.net/Articles/488906/ said, we've been working on upstreaming > the different integrity components for quite a while. Although > IMA-appraisal isn't the last component, it is a major one and were > hoping that it would be upstreamed in the near future. Is 3.5 still a > possibility? Not sure why you're asking Jon, but the technical issues raised by Al need to be resolved before the code can be considered for upstreaming. - James -- James Morris