linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] security subsystem: Tomoyo updates for v5.2

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Date:   Sat, 11 May 2019 10:38:13 -0400
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc:     LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] security subsystem: Tomoyo updates for v5.2

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 6:09 PM James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> wrote:
>
> These patches include fixes to enable fuzz testing, and a fix for
> calculating whether a filesystem is user-modifiable.

So now these have been very recently rebased (on top of a random
merge-window "tree of the day" version) instead of having multiple
merges.

That makes the history cleaner, but has its own issues.

We really need to find a different model for the security layer patches.

                   Linus