Re: [GIT PULL] Smack additional patch for v5.11

2020-12-24 Thread pr-tracker-bot
The pull request you sent on Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:43:25 -0800: > https://github.com/cschaufler/smack-next smack-for-5.11 has been merged into torvalds/linux.git: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/2f2fce3d535779cb1b0d77ce839029d5d875d4f4 Thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot.

Re: [GIT PULL] Smack additional patch for v5.11

2020-12-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 4:43 PM Casey Schaufler wrote: > > https://github.com/cschaufler/smack-next smack-for-5.11 That is not a tag. And I really want signed tags for non-kernel.org pull requests. Digging at that repo, I do find the tag, it's 'tags/Smack-for-5.11-io_uring-fix' and it has a

[GIT PULL] Smack additional patch for v5.11

2020-12-22 Thread Casey Schaufler
Hello Linus Sorry for the 2nd pull request, but this is a fairly important fix for the privilege handling of smackfs in the face of io_uring. The novel use of kernel threads in io_uring invalidated an long standing assumption regarding the privilege of kernel threads. The fix is simple and safe.