Re: [PATCH bpf-next 4/8] bpf, lsm: Let BPF LSM provide xattrs at inode creation

[Paul Moore]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 3:14 PM David Windsor <dwindsor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 12:57 PM Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > @David, simply for my own understanding, did you ask Daniel to do
> > this, or was Daniel operating on his own with this patchset?
> >
>
> Daniel and I work together and both have things written on top of this
> kfunc. He reached out to collaborate, I agreed. We're also going to
> send bpf_set_file_xattr shortly.
>
> This implementation was chosen due to its immediate mergeability (it
> only touches security/bpf), but was actually suggested by Kumar in v1
> or so of my original series.
>
> That said, sorry for any confusion about this appearing as a new
> series rather than as v7 of my previous one.

Thanks for your perspective.

To be perfectly honest with you, seeing this patchset land in
linux-next without it being posted to the LSM list, or at least CC'ing
me, after all the discussions on the previous iterations seemed a bit
suspect, especially considering the rather rocky relations between the
BPF and LSM communities at the moment.  Regardless, hopefully we can
get this sorted out.

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