linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] tomoyo update for v6.12

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Message-ID: <Zv5MyX12CyvDnZDJ@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 00:50:33 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] tomoyo update for v6.12

On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 12:32:18AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Since Paul Moore continues ignoring my concerns, waiting for support of loadable

Paul is not ignoring your concerns.  He is rejecting your argument for
all the right reasons.

> This backdoor symbol-export mechanism is a transitional hack needed for
> demonstrating that loadable LSM can work. This hack will be replaced with
> proper symbol-export via appropriate trees after this merge window closes.

Seriously, this should get you stripped of your maintainership.
Backdoring yourself in over explicitly NAKed aproaches is a no-go,
but unfortunately Linus has become lazy enough to let that slip through
occasionally (e.g. bcachefs changes that we're painfully sorting out
now).