linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: add syscall to load module from fd

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Date:	Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:20:39 +0930
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: add syscall to load module from fd

Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> Why?  Not only have you had these patches sitting for a while, way
> before you had the kernel module patches, they've been acked/signed off
> by Kees, Serge, Eric, and myself.  All security subtree maintainers.
> The module patches could have easily been built on top of Kees' small
> patches.  I am really disappointed!

Me too.

Linus' merge window opened on Monday 1-10-2012.  One week before that
was Monday 24-09-2012, which is the nominal close of my merge window.

The patches were sent on 21-09 (Friday for you, the weekend my time).

If I had nothing else to do on Monday, I would have applied it, but we
spent the week trying to get the module signing patches into shape :(

If I take them now, they need to go through linux-next.  That won't
happen until Monday.  I want two days in linux-next, so that people who
test linux-next get a chance to find issues, so that's Wednesday before
I send to Linus, which is getting very late into the merge window.

And keep adding two days for every trivial issue which is found :(

It's in my modules-wip branch for 3.8.

Cheers,
Rusty.

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