Linux 6.7 Released

11 Jan 2024 tags: audit selinux

Linux v6.7 was released on Sunday, January 7th. I already wrote up a post highlighting the SELinux and audit changes that were submitted during the merge window, however there were additional changes that went in during the release candidate process which are described below.

SELinux

• Minor changes to the SELinux credential code as part of the larger effort to remove CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS. This should have little to no effect on SELinux.

Audit

• Remove a WARN_ON_ONCE() based warning in the audit exe filter code as it was causing a lot of scary looking, but harmless, warnings on the console when exe filtering was used in conjunction with some eBPF programs.

In addition to my highlights, LWN.net provides a nice overall summary of the kernel changes made during the first and second weeks of the merge window.