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From: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
To: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huaweicloud.com>,
	dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com,  eric.snowberg@oracle.com,
	jmorris@namei.org, serge@hallyn.com,
	 linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	pc@manguebit.com,  christian@brauner.io,
	Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,  Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ima: evm: Rename *_post_path_mknod() to *_path_post_mknod()
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:56:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHC9VhQaQErZyqe88wKvVwHKHDdgYB1SR11Z9iZC6VisgmiLpw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1fe6813db395563be658a9b557931cf4db949100.camel@linux.ibm.com>

On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 3:28 PM Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-03-29 at 15:12 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> > Another important thing to keep in mind about 'Fixes' tags, unless
> > you've told the stable kernel folks to only take patches that you've
> > explicitly marked for stable, they are likely going to attempt to
> > backport anything with a 'Fixes' tag.
>
> How do we go about doing that?  Do we just send an email to stable?

When I asked for a change to the stable policy, it was an email
exchange with Greg where we setup what is essentially a shell glob to
filter out the files to skip unless explicitly tagged:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/ignore_list

> Is it disabled for security?

I asked for it to be disabled for the LSM layer, SELinux, and audit.
I sent a note about it last year to the mailing list:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-security-module/CAHC9VhQgzshziG2tvaQMd9jchAVMu39M4Ym9RCComgbXj+WF0Q@mail.gmail.com

> I thought new functionality won't be backported.

One thing I noticed fairly consistently in the trees I maintained is
that commits marked with a 'Fixes' tag were generally backported
regardless of if they were marked for stable.

> Hopefully the changes for making IMA & EVM full fledged LSMs won't be
> automatically backported to stable.

I haven't seen that happening, and I wouldn't expect it in the future
as none of those patches were explicitly marked for stable or had a
'Fixes' tag.

--
paul-moore.com

  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-29 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-29 10:56 [PATCH 1/2] security: Handle dentries without inode in security_path_post_mknod() Roberto Sassu
2024-03-29 10:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] ima: evm: Rename *_post_path_mknod() to *_path_post_mknod() Roberto Sassu
2024-03-29 15:16   ` Mimi Zohar
2024-03-29 15:45     ` Roberto Sassu
2024-03-29 19:12     ` Paul Moore
2024-03-29 19:27       ` Mimi Zohar
2024-03-29 19:56         ` Paul Moore [this message]
2024-03-29 15:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] security: Handle dentries without inode in security_path_post_mknod() Mimi Zohar
2024-03-29 15:42   ` Roberto Sassu
2024-03-29 19:06 ` Paul Moore

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