linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] SafeSetID LSM changes for 5.4

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Date:   Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:44:49 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc:     Micah Morton <mortonm@...omium.org>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@....com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-security-module <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SafeSetID LSM changes for 5.4

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 4:30 PM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> I pushed some (untested) commits out to the dev branch of -rcu, the
> overall effect of which is shown in the patch below.  The series
> adds a new rcu_replace() to avoid confusion with swap(), replaces
> uses of rcu_swap_protected() with rcu_replace(), and finally removes
> rcu_swap_protected().
>
> Is this what you had in mind?
>
> Unless you tell me otherwise, I will assume that this change is important
> but not violently urgent.  (As in not for the current merge window.)

Ack, looks good to me,

               Linus