[PATCH] fanotify, inotify, dnotify, security: add security hook for fs notifications

Jan Kara jack at suse.cz
Mon Aug 12 13:41:45 UTC 2019


On Sat 10-08-19 11:01:16, Paul Moore wrote:
> On August 10, 2019 6:05:27 AM Amir Goldstein <amir73il at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >>>> Other than Casey's comments, and ACK, I'm not seeing much commentary
> >>>> on this patch so FS and LSM folks consider this your last chance - if
> >>>> I don't hear any objections by the end of this week I'll plan on
> >>>> merging this into selinux/next next week.
> >>>
> >>> Please consider it is summer time so people may be on vacation like I was...
> >>
> >> This is one of the reasons why I was speaking to the mailing list and
> >> not a particular individual :)
> >
> > Jan is fsnotify maintainer, so I think you should wait for an explicit ACK
> > from Jan or just merge the hook definition and ask Jan to merge to
> > fsnotify security hooks.
> 
> Aaron posted his first patch a month ago in the beginning of July and I
> don't recall seeing any comments from Jan on any of the patch revisions.
> I would feel much better with an ACK/Reviewed-by from Jan, or you - which
> is why I sent that email - but I'm not going to wait forever and I'd like
> to get this into -next soon so we can get some testing.

Yeah, sorry for the delays. I'm aware of the patch but I was also on
vacation and pretty busy at work so Amir always beat me in commenting on
the patch and I didn't have much to add. Once Aaron fixes the latest
comments from Amir, I'll give the patch the final look and give my ack.

								Honza

-- 
Jan Kara <jack at suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR



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