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Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:27:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:27:16 +0100 From: Josh Law To: Kees Cook , Andy Shevchenko CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andy.shevchenko@gmail.com Subject: Re: [RFC] [QUESTION] Stuff to do for string In-Reply-To: <017A12AC-0FCC-42F0-86C4-7413CE977025@kernel.org> References: <313CDBE8-2AE7-4104-9DE0-C119A843A0F4@gmail.com> <017A12AC-0FCC-42F0-86C4-7413CE977025@kernel.org> Message-ID: <82482AE8-553E-4884-83D4-AE443EC9FDC5@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit [Snip! :)] >Traditionally, patches for these kinds of changes (i.e. strlcat) get split >per subsystem or per driver, since they're not 1:1 mechanical conversions. > >And while I did a couple conversions recently (since I was already looking >at the code), it's not on my active TODO right now. Feel free to tackle >it! > >You can reference https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/370 with a Link tag >too. Yes, im tackling it, maybe patch series for each subsystem (e.g: 10/10 series for all files that has the function), is it fine if you do the documentation removal at the end? (Lol you can *totally* claim all the credit if you do it last) But, the thing I am heavily intrigued in is the memscan() nuking, only like 14 files call it, it's an easy job! But my server is not the greatest, so it takes a while for me to do major patches like these. Also, removing a whole function in the kernel sounds cool, (There even was a whole YouTube video about it!) For now, while I get my server upgraded, I'll review patches for string, as I understand it. Kees. Anything for this file on your TODO list you think?