Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] usercopy whitelisting for v4.15-rc1 | From | Paolo Bonzini <> | Date | Fri, 17 Nov 2017 18:45:57 +0100 |
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On 17/11/2017 18:35, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Honestly, I'm unlikely to pull this at all this merge window, simply > because I won't have time for it. This merge window is not going to be > one where I can take a leisurely look at something like this. > > If you can make a smaller pull request that introduces the > infrastructure, but that _obviously_ cannot actually break anything, > that would be more likely to be palatable.
As someone that was actually bitten by this stuff, and had a closer look at the usercopy whitelisting stuff... This one is really fail-fast (oopses all around if you forget to patch something), and with hardly any configuration dependency. It's certainly a lot less scary to me than the GCC plugin stuff.
But I don't want to ruin your Thanksgiving, so if Kees and/or you choose not to do this pull request---please do pull a subset, even after -rc1. It's easy enough to drop the final patch that changes whitelisting to blacklisting, and it'd be one less series bouncing around and touching files in several subsystems.
My 2 cents,
Paolo
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