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=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no 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 B28C1C4363A for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:44:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 698C220866 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:44:16 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1602863056; bh=nY4LDE8VNnwTnb/g6m4Oe1ZSla48fixzVfmyYNr7Pcw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=jtvNtl6/6GzbOHFXu1n5r5vLINepsRxC/XnbC8mTeCDU+eNrvFdvUAUCammnwOKqZ G/y6W6QmTuxX6Ov4/H/FmWcdq1WjOKVY8zH44qr2dlsi3h9vnlnV+XSivw/wJLF+T4 FvQ4opXXzgUqHJqUb3B9ACIggb7dWby/YhBqE/jg= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2410378AbgJPPoP (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:44:15 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:60090 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2410376AbgJPPoP (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:44:15 -0400 Received: from localhost (83-86-74-64.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.74.64]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4248B208E4; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:44:13 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1602863053; bh=nY4LDE8VNnwTnb/g6m4Oe1ZSla48fixzVfmyYNr7Pcw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=JusPAO0GJsqw2eT8Fr4Nb/XT9cjz5WY40g0yqIHzxxRuhdet0kqpb5woPhhB/v9iJ Q0z4d4hb2XCcCsPcz0tLEISyCECbgChBGGXGv+EHyFbaxfLs6I248s4o6ega5r3iKk FCawW4w58vo2lTUZ9NHd/ro6arMRiH9JjbHe9IyI= Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 17:44:43 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Sasha Levin Cc: Daniel Burgener , stable@vger.kernel.org, stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com, paul@paul-moore.com, selinux@vger.kernel.org, jmorris@namei.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5.4 v2 0/4] Update SELinuxfs out of tree and then swapover Message-ID: <20201016154443.GA1818291@kroah.com> References: <20201016134835.1886478-1-dburgener@linux.microsoft.com> <20201016150120.GB1807231@kroah.com> <20201016153823.GA2415204@sasha-vm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20201016153823.GA2415204@sasha-vm> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org 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