Re: [GIT PULL] SELinux list corruption fix for 3.18

From: James Morris
Date: Wed Oct 15 2014 - 04:06:14 EST


On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > No, the log is correct (the log always is, the back-merges can cause
> > the trivial *diff* to be broken).
>
> To add some details: the commits in there are
>
> f6ed66087648 Merge branch 'stable-3.18' of
> git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/selinux into f
> 7c66bdc72bc3 selinux: fix inode security list corruption
> e7387395a07d selinux: normalize audit log formatting
> 8497b78ecc9d selinux: cleanup error reporting in selinux_nlmsg_perm()
> 6eb1ddc6bd3f selinux: make the netif cache namespace aware
> 5e29532fed21 selinux: register nf hooks with single nf_register_hooks call
> 82341ad9b962 selinux: fix a problem with IPv6 traffic denials in
> selinux_ip_postroute()
> 04e8d6ab1fa6 selinux: Permit bounded transitions under NO_NEW_PRIVS or NOSUID.
>
> and all but the list corruption fix seem to just be duplicate commits
> of things I have already gotten elsewhere. Somebody cherry-picking
> commits and duplicating them?
>

Yep, I also already have these other changes under different commit IDs:

commit 7b0d0b40cd78cadb525df760ee4cac151533c2b5
Author: Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Aug 4 13:36:49 2014 -0400

selinux: Permit bounded transitions under NO_NEW_PRIVS or NOSUID.


Paul: do you have the above commit ID in your tree?

> So there are more things rotten in this tree than a back-merge.



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