[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update the LSM entry

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Wed Nov 15 17:21:05 UTC 2023


On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 11:48 AM Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com> wrote:
>
> Bring the LSM / "SECURITY SUBSYSTEM" entry up to date with the
> following changes:
>
> * Remove the "(suggested Cc:)" note on the mailing list.  I don't
> really care if the LSM list is on the To: or Cc: line, I just want
> folks to include it when appropriate.
>
> * Remove the website link.  The website isn't really maintained in
> any meaningful way so we're going to go ahead and remove it so we
> lessen the chance of conflicting or confusing information in the
> future.
>
> * Add our patchwork link.  I'm not sure this is of much use for
> anyone but the maintainer, but there is a provision for including it
> here so we might as well include it.
>
> * Add a bug report URI.  I suspect most everyone knows to send mail
> to the mailing list if they hit a bug, but let's make it official.
>
> * Add a link to the LSM tree process/management documentation.  While
> the doc exists both in the canonical kernel.org location and the
> GitHub mirror, provide a link to the mirror as GitHub does a better
> job rendering the Markdown.
>
> * Aside from changes to the LSM code itself, we also would like to be
> notified when the LSMM call sites are changed so we are adding a
> security_XXX(...) regex to try and catch all of the callers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 2482b40fd786..007e43ee3e47 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -19507,14 +19507,17 @@ SECURITY SUBSYSTEM
>  M:     Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
>  M:     James Morris <jmorris at namei.org>
>  M:     "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge at hallyn.com>
> -L:     linux-security-module at vger.kernel.org (suggested Cc:)
> +L:     linux-security-module at vger.kernel.org
>  S:     Supported
> -W:     http://kernsec.org/
> +Q:     https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-security-module/list
> +B:     mailto:linux-security-module at vger.kernel.org
> +P:     https://github.com/LinuxSecurityModule/kernel/blob/main/README.md
>  T:     git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm.git

Unfortunately I didn't realize this until the patch hit my inbox, but
I should also update the tree location to use https instead of git.
I'll fix that when I merge the patch.

>  F:     include/uapi/linux/lsm.h
>  F:     security/
>  F:     tools/testing/selftests/lsm/
>  X:     security/selinux/
> +K:     \bsecurity_[a-z_0-9]\+\b
>
>  SELINUX SECURITY MODULE
>  M:     Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
> --
> 2.42.1

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