2012-05-03 04:23:59

by James Morris

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Subject: Re: [RFC] situation with fput() locking (was Re: [PULL REQUEST] : ima-appraisal patches)

On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Mimi Zohar wrote:

> Jon, thank you for summarizing the discussion - article
> http://lwn.net/Articles/494158/. As Jake Edge's previous LWN article
> http://lwn.net/Articles/488906/ said, we've been working on upstreaming
> the different integrity components for quite a while. Although
> IMA-appraisal isn't the last component, it is a major one and were
> hoping that it would be upstreamed in the near future. Is 3.5 still a
> possibility?

Not sure why you're asking Jon, but the technical issues raised by Al need
to be resolved before the code can be considered for upstreaming.


- James
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