linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] MAINTAINERS: Update pstore maintainers

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Message-ID: <202211171359.232C769E3A@keescook>
Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:01:33 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...lia.com>
Cc:     linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
        Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>,
        Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Paramjit Oberoi <pso@...omium.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] MAINTAINERS: Update pstore maintainers

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 12:42:53PM -0300, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> On 11/10/2022 17:01, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Update pstore to better reflect reality of active contributors:
> > 
> > - Remove Anton and Colin (thank you for your help through the years!)
> > - Move Tony to Reviewer
> > - Add Guilherme as Reviewer
> > - Add mailing list
> > - Upgrade to Supported
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 8 ++++----
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> Hi Kees, sorry to revamp this thread for a "tangential" topic, but it
> feels a "kinda" proper thread.
> 
> Since I was added as a reviewer on pstore (in linux-next so far), I
> started to receive a bunch of emails from ARM device-tree folks; they're
> adding ramoops entries to their DTs and looping pstore folks.
> 
> Examples:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20221111120156.48040-1-angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com/
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20221116145616.17884-1-luca@z3ntu.xyz/
> 
> 
> Personally, I have no knowledge of these HW to evaluate if the ramoops
> setting is appropriate, so they're nop from my side, I just delete them.
> But that raises the question - are you/Tony reviewing this kind of
> change? It's not related to pstore/ramoops code, it's just users setting
> ramoops in their DTs, so seems to me a bit far from the purpose of the
> pstore entry.

I usually look at it very quickly, but I can't meaningfully positively
review it because I don't know the hardware, etc.

> What do you/Tony think about that? Likely the DT folks are following
> this entry in the MAINTAINERS to send these emails:
> 
> PSTORE FILESYSTEM
> M:      Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> [...]
> F:      include/linux/pstore*
> K:      \b(pstore|ramoops) <------
> 
> Should this be kept? Maybe only the ramoops entry could be removed?

I would like to keep it -- if something mentions pstore and ramoops, I'd
like to see it. I can't review all of it, but I'd like it to at least
show up in my inbox. :)

-- 
Kees Cook