linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/20] FIEMAP: don't bother with access

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Message-ID: <20200513193801.GC484@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 13 May 2020 12:38:01 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/20] FIEMAP: don't bother with access_ok()

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 08:02:07PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20200507145924.GA28854@lst.de/T/#t
> > 
> > which is waiting to be picked up [1], and also has some chance for conflicts
> > due to changes next to the access_ok.
> > 
> > [1] except for the first two patches, which Ted plans to send for 5.7
> 
> I can drop this commit, of course, it's not a prereq for anything else in there.
> Or I could pick your series into never-rebased branch, but it would complicate
> the life wrt ext4 tree - up to you and Ted...

I really don't care - the first two really need to go in ASAP and
Ted promised to pick them up, but I've not seen them in linux-next
yet.  The rest can go wherever once the first ones hit mainline.