Re: [PATCH v2] exec: Set file unwritable before LSM check
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] contents could change between the two. I'm going to assume I get this for 4.17 from the security tree. And the only other security module that even...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v3] kernel.h: Skip single-eval logic on literals in min ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) For example, "max_t/min_t" really don't care at all, since they - by definition - just take the single specified type. definition - just take the single specified type....
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] [v2] docs: clarify security-bugs disclosure policy
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) If you have some long corrupt vendor disclosure period and are worried about any good guys finding out (the bad guys probably already have it), we're not the list for...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v3] kernel.h: Skip single-eval logic on literals in min ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) We wanted 4.5 for "asm goto", and once we upgrade to 4.5 I think Arnd said that no distro actually ships it, so we might as well go to 4.6. ships it, so we might as...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v3] kernel.h: Skip single-eval logic on literals in min ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 4:32 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: [...] I wonder which gcc versions actually accept Kees's addition. Note that we...
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Or it just tries to force quote using html. force quote using html. There's some html email disease inside google, where some parts of the company seems to think that...
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Linus Torvalds writes: On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 11:03 PM, Miguel Ojeda<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> wrote:[...] kernels? I wouldn't mind upping the compiler requirements, and we have other...
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 7:33 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote: [...] *addr @@ got struct mac_regs [noderef] <avoid *addr @@ Actually, this seems a...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v3] kernel.h: Skip single-eval logic on literals in min ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It's that "-Wvla" is gar= bage. bage. Lookie here: Lookie here: int array[(1,2)]; int array[(1,2)]; results in gcc saying results in gcc saying warning: ISO C90 forbids...
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) So in *historical* context - when a compiler didn't do variable length arrays at all - the original semantics of C "constant expressions" actually make a ton of sense....
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v3] kernel.h: Skip single-eval logic on literals in min ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) But constant simplification and CSE etc is just a very fundamental part of a compiler, and anybody who actually implements VLA's would have to do it anyway. VLA's would...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 00/35] remove in-kernel syscall invocations
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I think there may be some room for cleanup and bikeshedding later (the "ksys_mmap_pgoff()" name made me go "that sounds more like a real helper than a kernel syscall",...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v8 1/6] arch: enable relative relocations for arm64, po ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 5:38 AM, Ard Biesheuvel<ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> I would have expected all of them to do it - is your selection of arm64/powerpc/x86...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v8 1/6] arch: enable relative relocations for arm64, po ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 1:35 PM, Ard Biesheuvel<ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:[...] test. Ok, fair enough. Ok, fair enough. Linus Linus Linus
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 0/3 v2] devpts: handle /dev/ptmx bind-mounts
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) That said, NFS already has that exact same loop for follow_to_parent(), just syntactically slightly different version. slightly different version. In fact, I wonder if...
View ArticleLinux 4.16-rc5
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Rodriguez (1): lib/test_kmod.c: fix limit check on number of test devices created Manish Rangankar (1): scsi: qedi: Fix kernel crash during port toggle Marc Zyngier...
View ArticleRe: [tip:x86/mm] x86/boot/compressed/64: Describe the logic behind ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] memory. Absolutely. Absolutely. Also, I'd suggest enabling 5-level paging as aggressively as possible by default (ie whenever the hardware supports it),...
View ArticleRe: [tip:x86/mm] x86/boot/compressed/64: Describe the logic behind ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It's not like it's per-thread, only per process, and very few people have so many processes that a page per process matters. processes that a page per process matters....
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] scsi: eata: drop VLA in reorder()
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It probably works, but one or two of those allocations will make the kernel stack really tight, so in general I really would suggest using kmalloc() instead, or...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 2/3 v3] devpts: resolve devpts bind-mounts
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) In this case, the ptmx node is not necessarily associated with the pts directory in any way, and the only thing that matters is that it's the right special character...
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