Security updates for v4.15 and beyond

[Casey Schaufler]

On 9/26/2017 5:03 PM, James Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, John Johansen wrote:
>
>> I have to agree with Paul here, unless there are infrastructure
>> changes this feels like an extra hop. With next directly pulling
>> security (for infrastructure) and LSM changes merge conflicts will
>> show up there. At which point we are going to need to coordinate,
>> but these should be rare.
> Ok, it seems a consensus is emerging to go with Paul's idea of having 
> larger, frequently updated LSMs merge directly to Linus.  If Linus is okay 
> with that (I'm assuing he will be), then that's how we'll do thing from 
> now.
>
> Of course, any LSM or other security mechanism is still welcome to be 
> merged via my tree.

Smack will stick with the security tree for the time being.
The amount of change is small (due to simplicity! :) ) and I
seriously doubt Linus wants to deal with the onesy-twosy patch
volume.

I will stick with the security tree for the stacking work as well.
Having SELinux and AppArmor going off on their own is a royal pain
for that, but there's already audit and networking to worry about
so it's hard to argue that life is going to be that much harder.

Oh well. I knew the job was dangerous when I took it.

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