linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] uaccess-related bits of vfs.git

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Date:   Sat, 13 May 2017 22:32:31 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] uaccess-related bits of vfs.git

Hi Al,

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 10:08 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 08:56:59PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
>
>> FWIW, just this cycle (this one I remembered off-hand, there might be
>> more):
>
> And looking through my queue (will be pushed to -next as soon as -rc1 goes
> out):
>
> commit 87fb4c8c103a4cdf17fead4aba58e96940a19a09
> Author: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> Date:   Thu Apr 20 15:47:34 2017 -0400
>
>     spidev: quit messing with access_ok()
>
>     Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spidev.c b/drivers/spi/spidev.c
> index 9e2e099baf8c..8dd22de5e3b5 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/spidev.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/spidev.c

You better run that one through linux-spi, to avoid conflicts, cfr.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9714993/

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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