linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix IMA lockdep circular locking dependency

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1205160113550.939@tundra.namei.org>
Date:	Wed, 16 May 2012 01:14:27 +1000 (EST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ibm.com>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix IMA lockdep circular locking dependency

On Mon, 14 May 2012, Mimi Zohar wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 10:29 +1000, James Morris wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 May 2012, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > 
> > > This patch has been updated to move the ima_file_mmap() call from
> > > security_file_mmap() to the new vm_mmap() function.
> > 
> > Which kernel is this for?
> 
> Commit #6be5ceb(VM: add "vm_mmap()" helper function) is in Linus' master
> tree, but the posted patch is against linux-security/next.

I'm still not sure what the answer is :-)

Can this wait until 3.5-rc1?


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