Stable backport of de3004c874e7 ("ocfs2: Switch to security_inode_init_security()")

[Paul Moore]

On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 12:07 PM Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 05:51:59PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I would like to request the backport of the commit below to address a
> >kernel panic in ocfs2 that was identified by Valentin Vidić in this
> >thread:
> >
> >https://lore.kernel.org/linux-security-module/20230401214151.1243189-1-vvidic@valentin-vidic.from.hr
> >
> >While Valentin provides his own patch in the original message, the
> >preferred patch is one that went up to Linus during the last merge
> >window; Valentin has tested the patch and confirmed that it resolved
> >the reported problem.
>
> How far should this patch be backported?

The problem is only present when the BPF LSM is enabled, which I
believe was merged upstream in the v5.7 release, so anything v5.7 or
later should be affected and thus a good backport target.

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