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<title>selinux: prune /sys/fs/selinux/user</title>
<updated>2026-05-05T19:27:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Smalley</name>
<email>stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-05T12:49:50+00:00</published>
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Remove the previously deprecated /sys/fs/selinux/user interface aside
from a residual stub for userspace compatibility.

Commit d7b6918e22c7 ("selinux: Deprecate /sys/fs/selinux/user") started
the deprecation process for /sys/fs/selinux/user:

    The selinuxfs "user" node allows userspace to request a list
    of security contexts that can be reached for a given SELinux
    user from a given starting context. This was used by libselinux
    when various login-style programs requested contexts for
    users, but libselinux stopped using it in 2020.
    Kernel support will be removed no sooner than Dec 2025.

A pr_warn() message has been in place since Linux v6.13, and a 5
second sleep was introduced since Linux v6.17 to help make it more
noticeable.

We are now past the stated deadline of Dec 2025, so remove the
underlying functionality and replace it with a stub that returns a
'0\0' buffer to avoid breaking userspace. This also avoids a local DoS
from logspam and an uninterruptible sleep delay.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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Remove the previously deprecated /sys/fs/selinux/user interface aside
from a residual stub for userspace compatibility.

Commit d7b6918e22c7 ("selinux: Deprecate /sys/fs/selinux/user") started
the deprecation process for /sys/fs/selinux/user:

    The selinuxfs "user" node allows userspace to request a list
    of security contexts that can be reached for a given SELinux
    user from a given starting context. This was used by libselinux
    when various login-style programs requested contexts for
    users, but libselinux stopped using it in 2020.
    Kernel support will be removed no sooner than Dec 2025.

A pr_warn() message has been in place since Linux v6.13, and a 5
second sleep was introduced since Linux v6.17 to help make it more
noticeable.

We are now past the stated deadline of Dec 2025, so remove the
underlying functionality and replace it with a stub that returns a
'0\0' buffer to avoid breaking userspace. This also avoids a local DoS
from logspam and an uninterruptible sleep delay.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T16:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T07:46:04+00:00</published>
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</published>
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'selinux-pr-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux</title>
<updated>2025-12-03T18:45:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-03T18:45:47+00:00</published>
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Pull selinux updates from Paul Moore:

 - Improve the granularity of SELinux labeling for memfd files

   Currently when creating a memfd file, SELinux treats it the same as
   any other tmpfs, or hugetlbfs, file. While simple, the drawback is
   that it is not possible to differentiate between memfd and tmpfs
   files.

   This adds a call to the security_inode_init_security_anon() LSM hook
   and wires up SELinux to provide a set of memfd specific access
   controls, including the ability to control the execution of memfds.

   As usual, the commit message has more information.

 - Improve the SELinux AVC lookup performance

   Adopt MurmurHash3 for the SELinux AVC hash function instead of the
   custom hash function currently used. MurmurHash3 is already used for
   the SELinux access vector table so the impact to the code is minimal,
   and performance tests have shown improvements in both hash
   distribution and latency.

   See the commit message for the performance measurments.

 - Introduce a Kconfig option for the SELinux AVC bucket/slot size

   While we have the ability to grow the number of AVC hash buckets
   today, the size of the buckets (slot size) is fixed at 512. This pull
   request makes that slot size configurable at build time through a new
   Kconfig knob, CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_AVC_HASH_BITS.

* tag 'selinux-pr-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux:
  selinux: improve bucket distribution uniformity of avc_hash()
  selinux: Move avtab_hash() to a shared location for future reuse
  selinux: Introduce a new config to make avc cache slot size adjustable
  memfd,selinux: call security_inode_init_security_anon()
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Pull selinux updates from Paul Moore:

 - Improve the granularity of SELinux labeling for memfd files

   Currently when creating a memfd file, SELinux treats it the same as
   any other tmpfs, or hugetlbfs, file. While simple, the drawback is
   that it is not possible to differentiate between memfd and tmpfs
   files.

   This adds a call to the security_inode_init_security_anon() LSM hook
   and wires up SELinux to provide a set of memfd specific access
   controls, including the ability to control the execution of memfds.

   As usual, the commit message has more information.

 - Improve the SELinux AVC lookup performance

   Adopt MurmurHash3 for the SELinux AVC hash function instead of the
   custom hash function currently used. MurmurHash3 is already used for
   the SELinux access vector table so the impact to the code is minimal,
   and performance tests have shown improvements in both hash
   distribution and latency.

   See the commit message for the performance measurments.

 - Introduce a Kconfig option for the SELinux AVC bucket/slot size

   While we have the ability to grow the number of AVC hash buckets
   today, the size of the buckets (slot size) is fixed at 512. This pull
   request makes that slot size configurable at build time through a new
   Kconfig knob, CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_AVC_HASH_BITS.

* tag 'selinux-pr-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux:
  selinux: improve bucket distribution uniformity of avc_hash()
  selinux: Move avtab_hash() to a shared location for future reuse
  selinux: Introduce a new config to make avc cache slot size adjustable
  memfd,selinux: call security_inode_init_security_anon()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>selinux: improve bucket distribution uniformity of avc_hash()</title>
<updated>2025-10-23T22:24:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hongru Zhang</name>
<email>zhanghongru@xiaomi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-23T11:30:18+00:00</published>
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Reuse the already implemented MurmurHash3 algorithm. Under heavy stress
testing (on an 8-core system sustaining over 50,000 authentication events
per second), sample once per second and take the mean of 1800 samples:

1. Bucket utilization rate and length of longest chain
+--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
|                          | bucket utilization rate / longest chain |
|                          +--------------------+--------------------+
|                          |      no-patch      |     with-patch     |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
|  512 nodes,  512 buckets |      52.5%/7.5     |     60.2%/5.7      |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| 1024 nodes,  512 buckets |      68.9%/12.1    |     80.2%/9.7      |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| 2048 nodes,  512 buckets |      83.7%/19.4    |     93.4%/16.3     |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| 8192 nodes, 8192 buckets |      49.5%/11.4    |     60.3%/7.4      |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+

2. avc_search_node latency (total latency of hash operation and table
lookup)
+--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
|                          |   latency of function avc_search_node   |
|                          +--------------------+--------------------+
|                          |      no-patch      |     with-patch     |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
|  512 nodes,  512 buckets |        87ns        |        84ns        |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| 1024 nodes,  512 buckets |        97ns        |        96ns        |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| 2048 nodes,  512 buckets |       118ns        |       113ns        |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| 8192 nodes, 8192 buckets |       106ns        |        99ns        |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+

Although MurmurHash3 has higher overhead than the bitwise operations in
the original algorithm, the data shows that the MurmurHash3 achieves
better distribution, reducing average lookup time. Consequently, the
total latency of hashing and table lookup is lower than before.

Signed-off-by: Hongru Zhang &lt;zhanghongru@xiaomi.com&gt;
[PM: whitespace fixes]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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Reuse the already implemented MurmurHash3 algorithm. Under heavy stress
testing (on an 8-core system sustaining over 50,000 authentication events
per second), sample once per second and take the mean of 1800 samples:

1. Bucket utilization rate and length of longest chain
+--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
|                          | bucket utilization rate / longest chain |
|                          +--------------------+--------------------+
|                          |      no-patch      |     with-patch     |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
|  512 nodes,  512 buckets |      52.5%/7.5     |     60.2%/5.7      |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| 1024 nodes,  512 buckets |      68.9%/12.1    |     80.2%/9.7      |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| 2048 nodes,  512 buckets |      83.7%/19.4    |     93.4%/16.3     |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| 8192 nodes, 8192 buckets |      49.5%/11.4    |     60.3%/7.4      |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+

2. avc_search_node latency (total latency of hash operation and table
lookup)
+--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
|                          |   latency of function avc_search_node   |
|                          +--------------------+--------------------+
|                          |      no-patch      |     with-patch     |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
|  512 nodes,  512 buckets |        87ns        |        84ns        |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| 1024 nodes,  512 buckets |        97ns        |        96ns        |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| 2048 nodes,  512 buckets |       118ns        |       113ns        |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| 8192 nodes, 8192 buckets |       106ns        |        99ns        |
+--------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+

Although MurmurHash3 has higher overhead than the bitwise operations in
the original algorithm, the data shows that the MurmurHash3 achieves
better distribution, reducing average lookup time. Consequently, the
total latency of hashing and table lookup is lower than before.

Signed-off-by: Hongru Zhang &lt;zhanghongru@xiaomi.com&gt;
[PM: whitespace fixes]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>selinux: Move avtab_hash() to a shared location for future reuse</title>
<updated>2025-10-23T22:24:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hongru Zhang</name>
<email>zhanghongru@xiaomi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-23T11:29:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=929126ef4a0e2723622eb3ba11017ca5fecd37d3'/>
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<content type='text'>
This is a preparation patch, no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Hongru Zhang &lt;zhanghongru@xiaomi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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This is a preparation patch, no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Hongru Zhang &lt;zhanghongru@xiaomi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>selinux: move initcalls to the LSM framework</title>
<updated>2025-10-22T23:24:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul@paul-moore.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-18T22:50:39+00:00</published>
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SELinux currently has a number of initcalls so we've created a new
function, selinux_initcall(), which wraps all of these initcalls so
that we have a single initcall function that can be registered with the
LSM framework.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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SELinux currently has a number of initcalls so we've created a new
function, selinux_initcall(), which wraps all of these initcalls so
that we have a single initcall function that can be registered with the
LSM framework.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'selinux-pr-20250725' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux</title>
<updated>2025-07-29T01:25:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-29T01:25:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=dffb641bea1d0c5a4017771aafb39513701095be'/>
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Pull selinux updates from Paul Moore:

 - Introduce the concept of a SELinux "neveraudit" type which prevents
   all auditing of the given type/domain.

   Taken by itself, the benefit of marking a SELinux domain with the
   "neveraudit" tag is likely not very interesting, especially given the
   significant overlap with the "dontaudit" tag.

   However, given that the "neveraudit" tag applies to *all* auditing of
   the tagged domain, we can do some fairly interesting optimizations
   when a SELinux domain is marked as both "permissive" and "dontaudit"
   (think of the unconfined_t domain).

   While this pull request includes optimized inode permission and
   getattr hooks, these optimizations require SELinux policy changes,
   therefore the improvements may not be visible on standard downstream
   Linux distos for a period of time.

 - Continue the deprecation process of /sys/fs/selinux/user.

   After removing the associated userspace code in 2020, we marked the
   /sys/fs/selinux/user interface as deprecated in Linux v6.13 with
   pr_warn() and the usual documention update.

   This adds a five second sleep after the pr_warn(), following a
   previous deprecation process pattern that has worked well for us in
   the past in helping identify any existing users that we haven't yet
   reached.

 - Add a __GFP_NOWARN flag to our initial hash table allocation.

   Fuzzers such a syzbot often attempt abnormally large SELinux policy
   loads, which the SELinux code gracefully handles by checking for
   allocation failures, but not before the allocator emits a warning
   which causes the automated fuzzing to flag this as an error and
   report it to the list. While we want to continue to support the work
   done by the fuzzing teams, we want to focus on proper issues and not
   an error case that is already handled safely. Add a NOWARN flag to
   quiet the allocator and prevent syzbot from tripping on this again.

 - Remove some unnecessary selinuxfs cleanup code, courtesy of Al.

 - Update the SELinux in-kernel documentation with pointers to
   additional information.

* tag 'selinux-pr-20250725' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux:
  selinux: don't bother with selinuxfs_info_free() on failures
  selinux: add __GFP_NOWARN to hashtab_init() allocations
  selinux: optimize selinux_inode_getattr/permission() based on neveraudit|permissive
  selinux: introduce neveraudit types
  documentation: add links to SELinux resources
  selinux: add a 5 second sleep to /sys/fs/selinux/user
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Pull selinux updates from Paul Moore:

 - Introduce the concept of a SELinux "neveraudit" type which prevents
   all auditing of the given type/domain.

   Taken by itself, the benefit of marking a SELinux domain with the
   "neveraudit" tag is likely not very interesting, especially given the
   significant overlap with the "dontaudit" tag.

   However, given that the "neveraudit" tag applies to *all* auditing of
   the tagged domain, we can do some fairly interesting optimizations
   when a SELinux domain is marked as both "permissive" and "dontaudit"
   (think of the unconfined_t domain).

   While this pull request includes optimized inode permission and
   getattr hooks, these optimizations require SELinux policy changes,
   therefore the improvements may not be visible on standard downstream
   Linux distos for a period of time.

 - Continue the deprecation process of /sys/fs/selinux/user.

   After removing the associated userspace code in 2020, we marked the
   /sys/fs/selinux/user interface as deprecated in Linux v6.13 with
   pr_warn() and the usual documention update.

   This adds a five second sleep after the pr_warn(), following a
   previous deprecation process pattern that has worked well for us in
   the past in helping identify any existing users that we haven't yet
   reached.

 - Add a __GFP_NOWARN flag to our initial hash table allocation.

   Fuzzers such a syzbot often attempt abnormally large SELinux policy
   loads, which the SELinux code gracefully handles by checking for
   allocation failures, but not before the allocator emits a warning
   which causes the automated fuzzing to flag this as an error and
   report it to the list. While we want to continue to support the work
   done by the fuzzing teams, we want to focus on proper issues and not
   an error case that is already handled safely. Add a NOWARN flag to
   quiet the allocator and prevent syzbot from tripping on this again.

 - Remove some unnecessary selinuxfs cleanup code, courtesy of Al.

 - Update the SELinux in-kernel documentation with pointers to
   additional information.

* tag 'selinux-pr-20250725' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux:
  selinux: don't bother with selinuxfs_info_free() on failures
  selinux: add __GFP_NOWARN to hashtab_init() allocations
  selinux: optimize selinux_inode_getattr/permission() based on neveraudit|permissive
  selinux: introduce neveraudit types
  documentation: add links to SELinux resources
  selinux: add a 5 second sleep to /sys/fs/selinux/user
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