2009-09-23 20:47:30

by James Morris

Subject: [GIT] bugfixes for the security subsystem

Hi Linus,

Please pull these fixes.

The following changes since commit 43c1266ce4dc06bfd236cec31e11e9ecd69c0bef:
Linus Torvalds (1):
Merge branch 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/.../tip/linux-2.6-tip

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 for-linus

Andrew Morton (1):
include/linux/cred.h: fix build

David Howells (1):
KEYS: Have the garbage collector set its timer for live expired keys

Eric Paris (1):
SELinux: do not destroy the avc_cache_nodep

Jason Gunthorpe (1):
tpm-fixup-pcrs-sysfs-file-update

Randy Dunlap (1):
creds_are_invalid() needs to be exported for use by modules:

drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c | 5 ++---
include/linux/cred.h | 18 +-----------------
kernel/cred.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
security/keys/gc.c | 4 ++--
security/selinux/avc.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
5 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)


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James Morris
<[email protected]>

2009-09-23 20:56:43

by Ingo Molnar

Subject: Re: [GIT] bugfixes for the security subsystem

* James Morris <[email protected]> wrote:

> Eric Paris (1):
> SELinux: do not destroy the avc_cache_nodep

btw., FYI, i have tested this patch separately for the past two days and
with that fix (and your earlier fixes) all the security related crashes
i reported are fixed.

Thanks,

Ingo