linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] SELinux list corruption fix for 3.18

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.11.1410151901560.11622@namei.org>
Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 2014 19:05:55 +1100 (AEDT)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SELinux list corruption fix for 3.18

On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > No, the log is correct (the log always is, the back-merges can cause
> > the trivial *diff* to be broken).
> 
> To add some details: the commits in there are
> 
>   f6ed66087648 Merge branch 'stable-3.18' of
> git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/selinux into f
>   7c66bdc72bc3 selinux: fix inode security list corruption
>   e7387395a07d selinux: normalize audit log formatting
>   8497b78ecc9d selinux: cleanup error reporting in selinux_nlmsg_perm()
>   6eb1ddc6bd3f selinux: make the netif cache namespace aware
>   5e29532fed21 selinux: register nf hooks with single nf_register_hooks call
>   82341ad9b962 selinux: fix a problem with IPv6 traffic denials in
> selinux_ip_postroute()
>   04e8d6ab1fa6 selinux: Permit bounded transitions under NO_NEW_PRIVS or NOSUID.
> 
> and all but the list corruption fix seem to just be duplicate commits
> of things I have already gotten elsewhere. Somebody cherry-picking
> commits and duplicating them?
> 

Yep, I also already have these other changes under different commit IDs:

commit 7b0d0b40cd78cadb525df760ee4cac151533c2b5
Author: Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>
Date:   Mon Aug 4 13:36:49 2014 -0400

    selinux: Permit bounded transitions under NO_NEW_PRIVS or NOSUID.


Paul: do you have the above commit ID in your tree?

> So there are more things rotten in this tree than a back-merge.



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

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