Re: [PATCH 0/5] add printk specifier %px, unique identifier
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> If we really get failures, we can do that. If we really get failures, we can do that. But since the...
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) So this file almost certainly doesn't matter to begin with, and with KASLR (which everybody should have anyway) the numerical values are useless to anybody except for...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] x86/syscalls: Mark expected switch fall-throughs
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] end of the 1970s Yes. Yes. That said, maybe one option would be to annotate the "case:" and "default:" statements if that makes people happier. IOW, we...
View ArticleRe: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v5 next 5/5] net: modules: use r ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) So really, it's not the "global sysctl" as much as the "global request_module()" that annoys me. request_module()" that annoys me. I'll happily take the...
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] with the "unpriv okay" subset? So once we've taken care of the networking ones that check their own different capability bit, maybe we can then make the...
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) We're interested in the kind of security that is generally applicable. generally applicable. To the mainline kernel, not breaking existing users matters, but it also...
View ArticleRe: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v5 next 5/5] net: modules: use r ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It will just mean that 99+% of all kernel developers won't see the fallout at all. fallout at all. Yes, something like Android may be 99% of the devices, but it's a...
View ArticleRe: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v5 next 5/5] net: modules: use r ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] allow an admin to turn those off? Just thinking about the DCCP case, where networking people actually knew it was pretty deprecated and had no real...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH V11 4/5] vsprintf: add printk specifier %px
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It's easy and it's obvious ("'x' for hex"), and it gives people a good way to say "yes, I really want the actual address as hex" for if/when the hashed pointer doesn't...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] Btrfs fixes for 4.15-rc2
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux.git for-4.15-rc2 Oh, please actually ask me to pull the signed tag (exact same pull-request, just...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v5 next 1/5] modules:capabilities: add request_module_cap()
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) When we do "request_module(XYZ)" we don't necessarily know what the dependencies are, so we expect modprobe to just load the right modules. just load the right modules....
View ArticleRe: [PATCH V11 4/5] vsprintf: add printk specifier %px
Linus Torvalds writes: On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote: [...] or zeroed. I haven't actually seen a case for that yet. I haven't actually seen a case for...
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote: [...] add request_module_socket() just to explicitly mark it? and this is where I'd...
View ArticleRe: add_wait_queue() (unintentional?) behavior change in v4.13
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) In the page bit-wait queues, we actually did this change _intentionally_ a few months ago (see commits _intentionally_ a few months ago (see commits 3510ca20ece0 Minor...
View ArticleRe: [btrfs_mount] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
Linus Torvalds writes: On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 6:38 PM, Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com> wrote: [...] That fix looks to be included in the pull request for 4.15-rc2 [2]. Which got merged earlier...
View ArticleRe: [BUILD FAILURE] nfs4state.c fails to compile with gcc 4.5.4
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] an anonymous union. I think we've seen this before, and I think there was some trick to make it work with older gcc versions. make it work with older gcc...
View ArticleRe: [BUILD FAILURE] nfs4state.c fails to compile with gcc 4.5.4
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c index 54fd56d715a8..9db5d0d57fcb 100644 ---...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] hash addresses printed with %p
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) So what I find distasteful here is how sysfs has these "helper" macros that are clearly designed to over-share. that are clearly designed to over-share. The __ATTR...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] RISC-V Cleanups and ABI Fixes for 4.15-rc2
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Many of the commits were done today, and thus clearly were never through the 0-day robot etc. robot etc. I don't actually think the 0day robot does RISC-V at all, at...
View ArticleLinux 4.15-rc2
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) But let's see if anybody even notices - a lot of the pointer printouts are stale debug information from when some driver was originally written, and aren't actually...
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