linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Allow individual features to be locked down

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Message-ID: <CAHC9VhS97RWMYmCOQVCZPUUCxdMXPMzM3R0z_U4zJQNe40M4BA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:25:08 -0400
From: Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
To: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@...e.com>
Cc: linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, serge@...lyn.com, kees@...nel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, 
	linux-coco@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Allow individual features to be locked down

On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@...e.com> wrote:
> >
> > This simple change allows usecases where someone might want to  lock only specific
> > feature at a finer granularity than integrity/confidentiality levels allows.
> > The first likely user of this is the CoCo subsystem where certain features will be
> > disabled.
> >
> > Nikolay Borisov (2):
> >   lockdown: Switch implementation to using bitmap
> >   lockdown/kunit: Introduce kunit tests
>
> Hi Nikolay,
>
> Thanks for the patches!  With the merge window opening in a few days,
> it is too late to consider this for the upcoming merge window so
> realistically this patchset is two weeks out and I'm hopeful we'll
> have a dedicated Lockdown maintainer by then so I'm going to defer the
> ultimate decision on acceptance to them.

FYI, I expect we'll see something on the mailing list related to this soon.

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