[PATCH v3] selinux: measure state and policy capabilities

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Fri Mar 5 19:22:49 UTC 2021


On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 12:57 PM James Bottomley
<James.Bottomley at hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-03-05 at 12:52 -0500, Paul Moore wrote:
> [...]
> > This draft seems fine to me, but there is a small logistical blocker
> > at the moment which means I can't merge this until -rc2 is released,
> > which likely means this coming Monday.  The problem is that this
> > patch relies on code that went upstream via in the last merge window
> > via the IMA tree, not the SELinux tree; normally that wouldn't be a
> > problem as I typically rebase the selinux/next to Linus' -rc1 tag
> > once the merge window is closed, but in this particular case the -rc1
> > tag is dangerously broken for some system configurations (the tag has
> > since been renamed) so I'm not rebasing onto -rc1 this time around.
> >
> > Assuming that -rc2 fixes the swapfile/fs-corruption problem, early
> > next week I'll rebase selinux/next to -rc2 and merge this patch.
> > However, if the swapfile bug continues past -rc2 we can consider
> > merging this via the IMA tree, but I'd assume not do that if possible
> > due to merge conflict and testing reasons.
>
> If it helps, we rebased the SCSI tree on top of the merge for the
> swapfile fix which is this one, without waiting for -rc2:

Considering that -rc2 is only two days away I'm not going to lose a
lot of sleep over it.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com



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