Re: [PATCH 4.19 0/3] Backport handling -ESTALE policy update failure to 4.19

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 08:44:51AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 09:10:13AM +0800, Guozihua (Scott) wrote:
> > On 2023/2/3 1:20, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 10:39:49AM +0800, GUO Zihua wrote:
> > >> This series backports patches in order to resolve the issue discussed
> > >> here:
> > >> https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/389334fe-6e12-96b2-6ce9-9f0e8fcb85bf@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > >>
> > >> This required backporting the non-blocking LSM policy update mechanism
> > >> prerequisite patches.
> > > 
> > > Do we not need this on newer kernels? Why only 4.19?
> > > 
> > Hi Sasha.
> > 
> > The issue mentioned in this patch was fixed already in the newer kernel.
> > All three patches here are backports from mainline.
> 
> Ok, now queued up, thanks.

Nope, I've now dropped them all as you did not include the needed fix up
commits as well.  We can not add patches to the stable tree that are
known broken, right?

How well did you test this?  I see at least 3 missing patches that you
should have had in this patch series for it to work properly.

greg k-h