Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Tue, 21 Nov 2017 04:34:15 -1000 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] usercopy whitelisting for v4.15-rc1 |
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[ this is just a resend of yesterday's mobile html version that got rejected by the lists, sorry for the duplication ]
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote: > > Can you clarify a little with regard to how you'd have liked this > patchset to look?
So I think the actual status of the patches is fairly good with the default warning.
But what I'd really like to see is to not have to worry so much about these hardening things. The last set of user access hardening really was more painful than it might have been.
And largely due to that I was really dreading pulling this one - and then with 20+ pulls a day because I really wanted to get everything big merged before travel, I basically ran out of time.
Part of that is probably also because the 4.15 merge window actually ended up bigger than I expected. I was perhaps naive, but I expected that because of 4.14 being LTS, this release would be smaller (like 4.9 vs 4.10) but that never happened.
So where I'd really like to be is simply that these pulls wouldn't be so nerve wracking for me. And that's largely me worrying about the approach people are taking, which is why I then reacted so strongly to the whole "warnings came later".
Sorry for the strong words.
Linus
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