linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V4 2/2] blktrace: allow access trace file in lockdown mode

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Message-ID: <afeb0ced-e4e9-6039-893e-b50268c1c148@oracle.com>
Date:   Tue, 9 May 2023 09:13:08 -0700
From:   Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@...cle.com>
To:     Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        nathanl@...ux.ibm.com, jmorris@...ei.org, serge@...lyn.com,
        konrad.wilk@...cle.com, joe.jin@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 2/2] blktrace: allow access trace file in lockdown mode

On 4/30/23 2:46 PM, Paul Moore wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 6:41 PM Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@...cle.com> wrote:
>> On 4/28/23 2:26 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 12:33 PM Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@...cle.com> wrote:
>>>> Paul,  do you have any other concerns regarding blktrace? As Jens
>>>> mentioned, blktrace just exported IO metadata to Userspace, those were
>>>> not security sensitive information.
>>> I think this version of the patchset is much better, thanks for your
>>> patience.  I don't have any further concerns, and since the lockdown
>>> LSM doesn't have a dedicated maintainer I think you should be all set
>>> from my perspective.
>> Thanks a lot for the review.
>>
>>> Since there are no changes under security/, I'm assuming this will go
>>> in via the tracing tree?
>> Should I notify some specific maintainer or mail list for merging?
> When in doubt, the scripts/get_maintainer.pl tool in the kernel
> sources can be helpful.
>
> The results for the debugfs and relay files are fairly generic, but if
> you look at the results for the blktrace.c file you get a more
> reasonable list of maintainers and mailing lists.  I believe Jens has
> already commented on your patches at least once, I don't recall if the
> others have or not.  I see you've already CC'd the block mailing list,
> so that might be enough.
>
> Keep in mind that we are in the middle of a merge window so it is very
> possible this patch might not be merged in a working/next/etc. branch
> until after the merge window closes (every maintainer is a little bit
> different in this regard).

I didn't see the patches in the trace tree yet, maybe better to merge it 
through block tree since it's a blktrace fix.

Jens, can you help merge these two patches to your tree?

Thanks,

Junxiao.

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