linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Xiu and myself as Lockdown maintainers

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Message-ID: <9076ab8364625a675e2c548adedeb854@paul-moore.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:56:07 -0400
From: Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
To: nicolas.bouchinet@....cyber.gouv.fr
Cc: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@...wei.com>, Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net>, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nicolas Bouchinet <nicolas.bouchinet@....gouv.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Xiu and myself as Lockdown maintainers

On Jun 24, 2025 nicolas.bouchinet@....cyber.gouv.fr wrote:
> 
> The Lockdown LSM has been unmaintained for some time now. It requires
> some work to ensure it works as intended.
> 
> Xiu Jianfeng and I volunteer to maintain the LSM.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Bouchinet <nicolas.bouchinet@....gouv.fr>
> Acked-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@...wei.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

It's been a couple of weeks now without any objections, so I'm merging
this into lsm/dev and will send this up to Linus during the next merge
window.  Once again, thank you both for volunteering to maintain
Lockdown.

There are a few more adinistrative things we need to do off-list, but
those are probably best deferred until this change lands in Linus' tree.

> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 0c1d245bf7b84f8a78b811e0c9c5a3edc09edc22..776c7fffcaec08f71faf2740599f0b4570179832 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -14060,8 +14060,10 @@ F:	Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/LoadPin.rst
>  F:	security/loadpin/
>  
>  LOCKDOWN SECURITY MODULE
> +M:	Nicolas Bouchinet <nicolas.bouchinet@....cyber.gouv.fr>
> +M:	Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@...wei.com>
>  L:	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
> -S:	Odd Fixes
> +S:	Maintained
>  T:	git https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm.git
>  F:	security/lockdown/

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