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=-13.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1,USER_IN_DEF_DKIM_WL 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 64A29C433E7 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:01:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02C36208E4 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:01:05 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux.microsoft.com header.i=@linux.microsoft.com header.b="b/Yda89G" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2409105AbgJPQBF (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:01:05 -0400 Received: from linux.microsoft.com ([13.77.154.182]:43366 "EHLO linux.microsoft.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2408468AbgJPQBF (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:01:05 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (c-73-172-233-15.hsd1.md.comcast.net [73.172.233.15]) by linux.microsoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B968A20B4905; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 09:01:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 linux.microsoft.com B968A20B4905 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linux.microsoft.com; s=default; t=1602864064; bh=i8c5fwACQE58gLMxSruBYUXR1wlmpqOp3Ms+A1pWVPc=; h=Subject:To:Cc:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=b/Yda89GDhjxdXzLqiiWuNBHOuuIQX/lwWpSEPYDNHAWqm+y/Nj6aw6iTJ9AZDswn UYGDajlNjRcY4DC6tyRfFxbUQ0j9brA4SIn1qo2YgcKV7E2C/6wanwa6FEFsiUx5tT o1W9+1T96RwXgWd0i9yRKF6wNA2uUs8LGiZdMNwo= Subject: Re: [PATCH v5.4 v2 0/4] Update SELinuxfs out of tree and then swapover To: Sasha Levin , Greg KH Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com, paul@paul-moore.com, selinux@vger.kernel.org, jmorris@namei.org References: <20201016134835.1886478-1-dburgener@linux.microsoft.com> <20201016150120.GB1807231@kroah.com> <20201016153823.GA2415204@sasha-vm> <20201016154443.GA1818291@kroah.com> <20201016154936.GB2415204@sasha-vm> From: Daniel Burgener Message-ID: <213527b2-87ce-01bf-0699-b82fa65dc91e@linux.microsoft.com> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:01:02 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20201016154936.GB2415204@sasha-vm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org On 10/16/20 11:49 AM, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 05:44:43PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: >> 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 :) > > No objections; if the selinux folks feel unhappy with this it'll just > wait for 5.10. > Yes, that's fine from my end as well.  We can carry this series out of tree in the interim.  Thanks! -Daniel