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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1211201445410.1844@tundra.namei.org>
Date:	Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:46:35 +1100 (EST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
	John Johansen <john.johansen@...onical.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@...ntu.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Yama: remove locking from delete path

On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Kees Cook wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:23 PM, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Kees Cook wrote:
> >
> >> Instead of locking the list during a delete, mark entries as invalid
> >> and trigger a workqueue to clean them up. This lets us easily handle
> >> task_free from interrupt context.
> >>
> >> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> >
> > This doesn't apply cleanly to my -next branch.
> 
> Did you already apply this from last week?
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/13/808

Nope.

> 
> > Kees: can you think about using git to push changes to me for Yama?
> 
> If this pace of changes keeps up, sure thing.

In any case, please check that your patches apply cleanly to my -next 
branch.


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