[apparmor] [Patch] Bug 888077 - aliases being partially applied

[John Johansen]

On 07/08/2013 04:59 AM, Christian Boltz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Am Montag, 8. Juli 2013 schrieb John Johansen:
>> Below is a mostly complete patch for
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/apparmor/+bug/888077
>>
>> It is currently missing support for link and mount rules. This patch
>> is done against the 2.8 branch, and the question is, is this
>> something we want in 2.8.2/3. It is rather large, and I want to
>> rework it some before it goes to the 2.9/3.0 branch. So the two
>> branch will differ on this point if we pull it into 2.8
> 
> Personally I'd really like to have it fixed (because I suffer from this 
> bug). OTOH you are right that the patch is quite large.
> 
> How big is the risk that your patch breaks something?
> 
heh, I would hope not to large. Its possible it breaks the dfa backend
but it passes testing so far. Its also possible that it breaks alias
processing, in which case there is a flag to revert to the old
code.