linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] lsm/lsm-pr-20240314

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:05:06 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
Cc: linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] lsm/lsm-pr-20240314

On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 at 13:31, Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com> wrote:
>
> I would like if you could merge these patches, I believe fixing the
> syscall signature problem now poses very little risk and will help us
> avoid the management overhead of compat syscall variants in the future.
> However, I'll understand if you're opposed, just let me know and I'll
> get you a compat version of this pull request as soon as we can get
> something written/tested/verfified.

No, attempting to just fix it after-the-fact in the hopes that nobody
actually uses the new system call yet sounds like the right thing to
do.

6.8 has been out for just days, and I see it's marked for stable, so
hopefully nobody ever even sees the mistake. I can't imagine that the
new system call is that eagerly used.

Famous last wods.

               Linus