linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] x86/asm for v2.6.33

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Message-ID: <20091203212834.46ad9ab3@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 3 Dec 2009 21:28:34 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/asm for v2.6.33

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 21:31:43 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> Linus,
> 
> Please pull the latest x86-asm-for-linus git tree from:
> 
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git
> x86-asm-for-linus
> 
> The most user visible change here is the (default disabled) 
> CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS security feature, which uses 
> __builtin_object_size() to validate copy_from_user accesses.
> 

just FYI; this config option will start generating warnings; I've
killed many of those, but those patches have gone via the various
maintainer trees so may come in a few days later in the merge window.


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