linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] situation with fput() locking (was Re: [PULL REQUEST] : ima-appraisal patches)

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Date:	Thu, 3 May 2012 14:23:48 +1000 (EST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	"Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Kasatkin, Dmitry" 
	<dmitry.kasatkin@...el.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Safford <safford@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] situation with fput() locking (was Re: [PULL REQUEST] :
 ima-appraisal patches)

On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Mimi Zohar wrote:

> Jon, thank you for summarizing the discussion - article
> http://lwn.net/Articles/494158/.  As Jake Edge's previous LWN article
> http://lwn.net/Articles/488906/ said, we've been working on upstreaming
> the different integrity components for quite a while.  Although
> IMA-appraisal isn't the last component, it is a major one and were
> hoping that it would be upstreamed in the near future.  Is 3.5 still a
> possibility?

Not sure why you're asking Jon, but the technical issues raised by Al need 
to be resolved before the code can be considered for upstreaming.


- James
-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>
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