Re: LSM stacking in next for 6.1?
On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 7:33 AM Tetsuo Handa
<penguin-kernel(a)i-love.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
On 2022/09/09 3:52, Paul Moore wrote:
> At least one of those, Landlock, has been merged upstream and is now
> available in modern released Linux Kernels. As far as the other LSMs
> are concerned, I don't recall there ever being significant interest
> among other developers or users to warrant their inclusion upstream.
> If the authors believe that has changed, or is simply not true, they
> are always welcome to post their patches again for discussion, review,
> and potential upstreaming. However, I will caution that it is
> becoming increasingly difficult for people to find time to review
> potential new LSMs so it may a while to attract sufficient comments
> and feedback.
Inclusion into upstream is far from the goal.
For better or worse, there is a long history of the upstream Linux
Kernel focusing only on in-tree kernel code, I see no reason why we
should change that now for LSMs. I am sorry that this approach
negatively affects the LSMs you mentioned, but if they are not
interested in being merged upstream there is not much we can do to
help.
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