Re: [PATCH] landlock: Fix layer composition of LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REFER

From: Panda Chen

Date: Thu Nov 12 2026 - 03:47:28 EST


Hello Günther,

You are right, and I apologize.

I was not aware of your patch [1] when I sent mine, and I then made it
worse: I sent v2 and v3 in quick succession without waiting for review
feedback, kept replying in the same thread instead of starting a new
top-level thread, and omitted per-version changelogs under the "---"
marker. These were my process mistakes, and I have re-read
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst to make sure I follow the
documented workflow from now on: wait for feedback, version from v1,
new top-level threads for new versions, changelog after "---", and my
real name (Panda Chen) in Author and Signed-off-by.

On the AI question: I prepared the patches with AI assistance, but the
sending decisions were mine. I understand the concern and will review
each version personally before anything goes out, at a human pace.

Since your fix is already in flight, I am withdrawing my patch. If it
is useful to you, please feel free to reuse the regression test from
my v3 (the selftest that stacks a network-only ruleset on a filesystem
ruleset and asserts that different-parent renames stay allowed); it
reproduces the bug on an unfixed kernel.

Thank you for the patience and the detailed feedback.

Best regards,
Panda Chen