linux-hardening - RE: [PATCH v6 0/5] Fortify strscpy()

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Message-ID: <824aad3a91254445b0f30359f1606e2a@AcuMS.aculab.com>
Date:   Fri, 20 Nov 2020 13:33:53 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Andrew Morton' <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "laniel_francis@...vacyrequired.com" 
        <laniel_francis@...vacyrequired.com>
CC:     "linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "dja@...ens.net" <dja@...ens.net>,
        "keescook@...omium.org" <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v6 0/5] Fortify strscpy()

From: Andrew Morton
> Sent: 20 November 2020 01:36
...
> Could you please send along a reworked [0/n] cover letter?  Explain in
> your own words, without requiring that readers go off and read web
> pages
> 
> - What problem the patchset solves
> - How it solves it
> - The value of the patchset (to kernel developers or to end-users) so that we
>   can understand why it should be merged.

- How much it slows things down.

	David

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