Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/2] lsm: give BPF programs a way to query locked_down state

From: Paul Moore

Date: Tue Aug 18 2026 - 15:49:18 EST


On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 1:42 PM David Windsor <dwindsor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 5:43 AM Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
> <memxor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Lastly, given the difficulties we've faced from the LSM maintainers, I'm not
> > inclined to waste more time in explaining again why this cannot go under
> > security/.
> >
>
> I'm still going to send v7 of bpf_init_inode_xattr series, even though
> it's a stalemate. Haven't yet decided where it'll live in v7, I'm
> inclined to leave it where it was (in fs/) since one side will NAK it
> wherever it lives. We can record NAKs and take it from there.

As a FYI, I'm not going to ACK any of the LSM changes with the kfunc
in security/bpf_lsm_kfuncs.c.

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