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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 26 Sep 2019 11:21:33 -0700
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SafeSetID LSM changes for 5.4
To:     Micah Morton <mortonm@chromium.org>
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        Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
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On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 8:31 PM Micah Morton <mortonm@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>                The best way I know of ensuring this is
> for me to personally run the SafeSetID selftest (in
> tools/testing/selftests/safesetid/) every release, regardless of
> whether we make any changes to SafeSetID itself. Does this sound
> sufficient or are there more formal guidelines/processes here that I'm
> not aware of?

I think that would help, but I wopuld also hope that somebody actually
runs Chromium / Chrome OS with a modern kernel.

Even if *standard* device installs don't end up having recent kernels,
I would assume there are people who are testing development setups?

              Linus