From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02CD5C433FF for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:28:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8BBB206BA for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:28:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728795AbfG2Q2i (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:28:38 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0046.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.46]:32781 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727814AbfG2Q2i (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:28:38 -0400 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay06.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B58A818224D97; Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:28:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: stove18_681e57aab8a60 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2302 Received: from XPS-9350 (cpe-23-242-196-136.socal.res.rr.com [23.242.196.136]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf18.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:28:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <0b6936cb34ca0dcd76b155b9b38366e82b1376f0.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [Fwd: [PATCH 1/2] string: Add stracpy and stracpy_pad mechanisms] From: Joe Perches To: Julia Lawall , Linus Torvalds , Kees Cook Cc: David Laight , cocci , LKML Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 09:28:34 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: <7ab8957eaf9b0931a59eff6e2bd8c5169f2f6c41.1563841972.git.joe@perches.com> <66fcdbf607d7d0bea41edb39e5579d63b62b7d84.camel@perches.com> <0f3ba090dfc956f5651e6c7c430abdba94ddcb8b.camel@perches.com> <563222fbfdbb44daa98078db9d404972@AcuMS.aculab.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.30.5-0ubuntu0.18.10.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 10:07 -0400, Julia Lawall wrote: > I see that stracpy is now in linux-next. Would it be reasonable to send > patches adding uses now? My preference would be to have: o A provably correct script If a small subset of possible conversions are skipped, that's fine. o As piecemeal patches cause a lot of churn, work for individual maintainers, and also are not universally applied, have that script run kernel-wide after an rc1 and applied all-at-once.