Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 07:13:43 +1000 (AEST)
From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
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        Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Security subsystem updates for 4.14
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, Kees Cook wrote:

> How separable are the patches, normally?

They're usually mostly separate, but may depend on some core LSM change, 
or similar.

Casey has mentioned off-list that it is useful to have a coherent up to 
date security branch to work against when making core LSM changes.


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James Morris
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