linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] xen: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20160708151220.GB7213@char.us.oracle.com>
Date:	Fri, 8 Jul 2016 11:12:20 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
Cc:	david.vrabel@...rix.com, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
	boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com, Juergen Gross <JGross@...e.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] xen: prefer xenbus_scanf() over
 xenbus_gather()

On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 09:06:36AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 08.07.16 at 16:17, <konrad.wilk@...cle.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 06:21:52AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> For single items being collected this should be preferred as being more
> >> typesafe (as the compiler can check format string and to-be-written-to
> >> variable match) and more efficient (requiring one less parameter to be
> >> passed).
> >> 
> >> 1: xenbus: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
> >> 2: xen-blkback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
> >> 3: xen-blkfront: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
> >> 4: xen-netback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>
> >> ---
> >> v2: Avoid commit messages to continue from subjects. Group into a series.
> > 
> > To confuse this, Roger and I are the block sub-maintainers, which
> > when we are happy, I send to Jens, while the rest go through Boris,David, 
> > and Juergen.
> 
> Which is why originally I had sent all of these separately. Yet David
> was pretty unhappy about that.

Aye!
I am not critizing, just saying that this is getting complicated and you
are in the unfortunate situation to have to deal with this - so want
to apoligize for you having to go through this gauntlet.