[PATCH v20 05/12] LSM: Infrastructure management of the superblock

Stephen Smalley stephen.smalley.work at gmail.com
Fri Sep 4 14:06:26 UTC 2020


On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 2:39 PM Stephen Smalley
<stephen.smalley.work at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 10:17 AM Mickaël Salaün <mic at digikod.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 12/08/2020 21:16, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > > On 8/2/20 5:58 PM, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> > >> From: Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com>
> > >>
> > >> Move management of the superblock->sb_security blob out
> > >> of the individual security modules and into the security
> > >> infrastructure. Instead of allocating the blobs from within
> > >> the modules the modules tell the infrastructure how much
> > >> space is required, and the space is allocated there.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com>
> > >> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
> > >> Reviewed-by: John Johansen <john.johansen at canonical.com>
> > >> Reviewed-by: Stephen Smalley <sds at tycho.nsa.gov>
> > >> Reviewed-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic at digikod.net>
> > >> Link:
> > >> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190829232935.7099-2-casey@schaufler-ca.com
> > >> ---
> > >>
> > >> Changes since v17:
> > >> * Rebase the original LSM stacking patch from v5.3 to v5.7: I fixed some
> > >>    diff conflicts caused by code moves and function renames in
> > >>    selinux/include/objsec.h and selinux/hooks.c .  I checked that it
> > >>    builds but I didn't test the changes for SELinux nor SMACK.
> > >
> > > You shouldn't retain Signed-off-by and Reviewed-by lines from an earlier
> > > patch if you made non-trivial changes to it (even more so if you didn't
> > > test them).
> >
> > I think I made trivial changes according to the original patch. But
> > without reply from other people with Signed-off-by or Reviewed-by
> > (Casey, Kees, John), I'll remove them. I guess you don't want your
> > Reviewed-by to be kept, so I'll remove it, except if you want to review
> > this patch (or the modified part).
>
> At the very least your Reviewed-by line is wrong - yours should be
> Signed-off-by because the patch went through you and you modified it.
> I'll try to take a look as time permits but FYI you should this
> address (already updated in MAINTAINERS) going forward.

I finally got around to reviewing your updated patch.  You can drop
the old line and add:
Reviewed-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work at gmail.com>



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