Linux 6.11 Merge Window

Linux v6.10 was released on Sunday, with the Linux v6.11 merge window opening immediately afterwards. Below are the highlights of the LSM and SELinux pull requests which have been merged into Linus’ tree. Due to the lack of audit patches queued for Linux v6.11, there is no audit pull request planned for this merge window.

LSM

• Rewrite the LSM’s inode extended attribute, aka xattr, control points to resolve an issue involving capabilities where legacy behaviors were impacting the support of multiple simultaneous LSMs. The LSM framework, as well as the associated SELinux and Smack code, was changed to preserve their existing behavior with capabilities while also improving the robustness of the code in the face of multiple active LSMs.

SELinux

• Fix the type of a pre-processor constant to better match its use. This should have no impact other than improved code quality and reduced risk of problems should the associated code change in the future.