linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ipc: explicitly clear stack memory in user structs

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Message-Id: <20101109150906.af2804ac.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:09:06 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipc: explicitly clear stack memory in user structs

On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:46:30 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com> wrote:
> >
> > No one has committed it. I don't know why; I've sent it a few times now.
> 
> You seem to have sent it just to lkml. At least in this case the patch
> itself was not sent to me (only the subsequent replies were), and the
> choice of recipients was fairly odd apart from Andrew (who probably
> _is_ the right person).

It's in my backlog queue.  Waaaay back.  

The -rc1 merging and kermel summit put me way behind (again) and when
I'm way behind, I start to work in reverse order (mainly to avoid
looking at older versions of patches).  And when I'm working in
time-reverse order, things which were sent a long time ago get delayed
even more.

The good news is that the longer I take to merge something, the less
likely it is that I'll actually merge it ;) Either it got shot down or
a new version came out or someone else merged it.

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