[GIT PULL] lsm/lsm-pr-20240314
Paul Moore
paul at paul-moore.com
Thu Mar 14 23:17:04 UTC 2024
On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 7:05 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 at 13:31, Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com> wrote:
> >
> > I would like if you could merge these patches, I believe fixing the
> > syscall signature problem now poses very little risk and will help us
> > avoid the management overhead of compat syscall variants in the future.
> > However, I'll understand if you're opposed, just let me know and I'll
> > get you a compat version of this pull request as soon as we can get
> > something written/tested/verfified.
>
> No, attempting to just fix it after-the-fact in the hopes that nobody
> actually uses the new system call yet sounds like the right thing to
> do.
>
> 6.8 has been out for just days, and I see it's marked for stable, so
> hopefully nobody ever even sees the mistake. I can't imagine that the
> new system call is that eagerly used.
Thanks, that was our thought too.
> Famous last wods.
>
> Linus
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