linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL][Security] lockdown: Allow unprivileged users to see lockdown status

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.21.2006040726580.3735@namei.org>
Date:   Thu, 4 Jun 2020 07:27:20 +1000 (AEST)
From:   James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL][Security] lockdown: Allow unprivileged users to see
 lockdown status

On Tue, 2 Jun 2020, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 7:15 PM James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> wrote:
> >
> > Just one update for the security subsystem: allows unprivileged users to
> > see the status of the lockdown feature. From Jeremy Cline.
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> That branch seems to have sprouted another commit just today.

Oops, sorry, I thought it was already pulled.

> 
> I ended up taking that too as trivial, but it shows how you seem to
> basically send me a pointer to a live branch. Please don't do that.
> When you make changes to that branch, I now get those changes that you
> may not have meant to send me (and that I get upset for being
> surprised by).
> 
> An easy solution to that is to send me a signed tag instead of a
> pointer to a branch. Then you can continue to update the branch, while
> the tag stays stable.
> 
> Plus we've been encouraging signed tags for pull requests anyway.

Ok.

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