Re: [PATCH 2/2] ima: evm: Rename *_post_path_mknod() to *_path_post_mknod()

[Paul Moore]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 3:28 PM Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-03-29 at 15:12 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> > Another important thing to keep in mind about 'Fixes' tags, unless
> > you've told the stable kernel folks to only take patches that you've
> > explicitly marked for stable, they are likely going to attempt to
> > backport anything with a 'Fixes' tag.
>
> How do we go about doing that?  Do we just send an email to stable?

When I asked for a change to the stable policy, it was an email
exchange with Greg where we setup what is essentially a shell glob to
filter out the files to skip unless explicitly tagged:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/ignore_list

> Is it disabled for security?

I asked for it to be disabled for the LSM layer, SELinux, and audit.
I sent a note about it last year to the mailing list:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-security-module/CAHC9VhQgzshziG2tvaQMd9jchAVMu39M4Ym9RCComgbXj+WF0Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> I thought new functionality won't be backported.

One thing I noticed fairly consistently in the trees I maintained is
that commits marked with a 'Fixes' tag were generally backported
regardless of if they were marked for stable.

> Hopefully the changes for making IMA & EVM full fledged LSMs won't be
> automatically backported to stable.

I haven't seen that happening, and I wouldn't expect it in the future
as none of those patches were explicitly marked for stable or had a
'Fixes' tag.

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