Re: [PATCH 4.19 0/3] Backport handling -ESTALE policy update failure to 4.19

On 2023/2/3 1:20, Sasha Levin wrote:

On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 10:39:49AM +0800, GUO Zihua wrote:

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This series backports patches in order to resolve the issue discussed here: https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/389334fe-6e12-96b2-6ce9-9f0e8fcb85bf@huawei....

This required backporting the non-blocking LSM policy update mechanism prerequisite patches.

Do we not need this on newer kernels? Why only 4.19?

Hi Sasha.

The issue mentioned in this patch was fixed already in the newer kernel. All three patches here are backports from mainline.