Re: [GIT PULL] security subsystem: Tomoyo updates for v5.2

From: James Morris
Date: Mon May 13 2019 - 14:05:23 EST


On Sun, 12 May 2019, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > My guess is that you are right and
> > any *significant* changes to the LSM layer itself, e.g. security/*, is
> > best sent via James' tree. For smaller changes to the LSM layer I
> > think it's okay if they go in via an individual LSM tree so long as
> > all the other LSMs agree-on/ack the changes; which pretty much fits
> > what we've been doing for some time now and it seems to work well
> > enough.
>
> Yeah, I think that's the sane model. And I think it's mostly been working.

New LSMs also need to be guided in, as part of a community effort.

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James Morris
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