LSM stacking in next for 6.1?

John Johansen john.johansen at canonical.com
Wed Aug 3 01:56:02 UTC 2022


On 8/2/22 17:56, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 8:01 PM Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com> wrote:
>> I would like very much to get v38 or v39 of the LSM stacking for Apparmor
>> patch set in the LSM next branch for 6.1. The audit changes have polished
>> up nicely and I believe that all comments on the integrity code have been
>> addressed. The interface_lsm mechanism has been beaten to a frothy peak.
>> There are serious binder changes, but I think they address issues beyond
>> the needs of stacking. Changes outside these areas are pretty well limited
>> to LSM interface improvements.
> 
> The LSM stacking patches are near the very top of my list to review
> once the merge window clears, the io_uring fixes are in (bug fix), and
> SCTP is somewhat sane again (bug fix).  I'm hopeful that the io_uring
> and SCTP stuff can be finished up in the next week or two.
> 
> Since I'm the designated first stuckee now for the stacking stuff I
> want to go back through everything with fresh eyes, which probably
> isn't a bad idea since it has been a while since I looked at the full
> patchset from bottom to top.  I can tell you that I've never been
> really excited about the /proc changes, and believe it or not I've
> been thinking about those a fair amount since James asked me to start
> maintaining the LSM.  I don't want to get into any detail until I've
> had a chance to look over everything again, but just a heads-up that
> I'm not too excited about those bits.
> 

I am slowly working my way through the complete stack of patches again as
well. I have pulled them into a test branch for Ubuntu 22.10 and the
plan is to get them out into our -proposed kernels for broader testing in
the next couple of weeks



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