linux-kernel - Re: Linux 4.2-rc1

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Message-ID: <559D63F9.2060109@schaufler-ca.com>
Date:	Wed, 08 Jul 2015 10:55:05 -0700
From:	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
To:	Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>,
	Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	william.c.roberts@...el.com, SELinux <Selinux@...ho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: Linux 4.2-rc1

On 7/8/2015 10:33 AM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 07/08/2015 11:05 AM, Casey Schaufler wrote:
>> On 7/8/2015 9:32 AM, Shuah Khan wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Linus Torvalds
>>> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>>> It's Sunday, two weeks have passed, and the merge window is closed. I
>>>> just pushed out the tag to the git trees, and tar-balls and patches
>>>> should be mirroring out too.
>>>>
>>>> I thought this release would be one of the biggest ones ever, but it
>>>> turns out that it will depend on how you count. Just counting pure
>>>> commits, it is indeed one of the bigger rc1's in recent history, but
>>>> 3.10-rc1 was almost as big, and then the final 3.10 grew from that
>>>> more than most. I doubt we'll match the 3.10 release, since we have
>>>> been getting progressively better at *not* merging tons of stuff after
>>>> -rc1.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I am seeing the following NULL pointer dereference on my test system:
>> Can I get your config file, please? I am particularly interested
>> in seeing your security settings.
>>
> Please see the attached config file.

SELinux is not configured, AppArmor is. It's possible that
the recent kernfs changes for SELinux affect this case, although
I couldn't say how from what I see.

>
> thanks,
> -- Shuah
>
>

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