From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751468AbdKURWF (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:22:05 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([65.50.211.133]:49283 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751269AbdKURWD (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:22:03 -0500 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] usercopy whitelisting for v4.15-rc1 To: Lukas Wunner , Kees Cook Cc: Matthew Garrett , Linus Torvalds , Paolo Bonzini , David Windsor , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexandre Belloni References: <20171117165423.GA34980@beast> <47222b54-cb13-2362-a525-714be2ba96de@redhat.com> <20171120195027.GA20045@srcf.ucam.org> <20171120232937.GA6700@srcf.ucam.org> <20171121135348.GA18848@wunner.de> From: Randy Dunlap Message-ID: <2bdb9891-a8e9-634b-ec9e-bf7f6167e069@infradead.org> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:22:00 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171121135348.GA18848@wunner.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/21/2017 05:53 AM, Lukas Wunner wrote: > There is a growing sense that hardening patches (which are generally > desirable of course) are forced into the kernel without due diligence. > Objections against tone notwithstanding, making that concern known in > a form with greater visibility than an LWN comment was appropriate by > Linus. More (qualified) reviewers should also help in patch acceptance. I expect that's a problem, both in qualifications and time to review. -- ~Randy