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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL][Security] lockdown: Allow unprivileged users to see lockdown status
On Tue, 2 Jun 2020, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 7:15 PM James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> wrote:
> >
> > Just one update for the security subsystem: allows unprivileged users to
> > see the status of the lockdown feature. From Jeremy Cline.
>
> Hmm.
>
> That branch seems to have sprouted another commit just today.

Oops, sorry, I thought it was already pulled.

>
> I ended up taking that too as trivial, but it shows how you seem to
> basically send me a pointer to a live branch. Please don't do that.
> When you make changes to that branch, I now get those changes that you
> may not have meant to send me (and that I get upset for being
> surprised by).
>
> An easy solution to that is to send me a signed tag instead of a
> pointer to a branch. Then you can continue to update the branch, while
> the tag stays stable.
>
> Plus we've been encouraging signed tags for pull requests anyway.

Ok.

--
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>

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