linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] kernel: use sysctl shared variables for range check

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Date:   Thu, 11 Apr 2019 00:54:15 +0200
From:   Matteo Croce <mcroce@...hat.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kernel: use sysctl shared variables for range check

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 12:34 AM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 3:30 PM Matteo Croce <mcroce@...hat.com> wrote:
> >
> > FYI, this are the stats from my local repo, just to let you the size
> > of a series with all the changes in it:
> >
> > $ git --no-pager log --stat --oneline linus/master
> >  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> >  6 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> >  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> >  12 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-)
> >  3 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-)
> >  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> Tiny! :) Seriously, though, I think this should be fine to take
> directly to Linus after patch 1 lands, or see if akpm wants to carry
> it directly.
>
> --
> Kees Cook

Nice. Still as an 8 patches series, or squashed into a bigger one?


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Matteo Croce
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