linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/10] x86/fpu: Clean up error handling in sigframe related code

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wiWxv7baa91W_0CXFtG+FW_Obp5Y=4BqZD7EZ+nqcRvqg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 30 Aug 2021 10:39:34 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/10] x86/fpu: Clean up error handling in sigframe
 related code

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 9:27 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
> The following series cleans this up. As a side effect the resulting text
> size of fpu/signal.o shrinks by about 150 bytes.

Well, some of the patches in the middle were confusing because of how
0/ERROR was mixing with a success true/false thing, but the end result
seems to be a whole lot more sensible.

Thanks,

             Linus