linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Misc driver fix for 5.15-rc1

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Date:   Sun, 12 Sep 2021 12:22:39 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Misc driver fix for 5.15-rc1

On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 12:17 PM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> This was done to deal with the various mangling of reports (i.e.
> "summaries") I've been getting from CI systems that run LKDTM.

.. and what makes LKDTM so special?

IOW, what about ALL THE OTHER REPORTS?

And no, my argument is most definitely not "ok, everything should do this".

It's the reverse. The CI systems should be the ones that are fixed,
not random messages from random places in the kernel have version
information added.

A CI report that doesn't report the version of the kernel is kind of
fundamentally broken, wouldn't you agree?

The fix is not to add the kernel version string into every single
message you print out.

             Linus