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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.21.1905140352370.14684@namei.org>
Date:   Tue, 14 May 2019 03:53:54 +1000 (AEST)
From:   James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.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 Sat, 11 May 2019, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 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.

These are just plain patches from the author, they were not part of any 
publicly accessible tree -- there's nowhere they could be merged from.

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

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