linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Hyper-V commits for 5.1

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Date:   Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:41:57 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...rosoft.com, linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org,
        kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Hyper-V commits for 5.1

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 08:28:54AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 09:34:51PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>  2. Fix to show monitor data only when monitor pages are actually
>> allocated, also by Kimberly Brown.
>
>That's not really a "fix", more like a "new feature", right?

This is (sadly) a fix; we access invalid memory or leak kernel memory to
userspace if we access the monitor sysfs files when there are no monitor
pages allocated.

>>  drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c                   | 166 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>A patch this big so late in the release cycle is not good.

Indeed, but I've had it in my queue for a few weeks now so it's been
receiving a good amount of testing - it's not something we came up with
a few days ago.

>Can you drop this one and resend the others?  If you sent this as a
>patch series, I could have done it that way on my own :)

I would prefer if you could take it in. While it's on the bigger side, a
lot of it is documentation (and comments!), and the code itself is
straightforward and was well reviewed over 6 iterations of the original
patch.

--
Thanks,
Sasha