linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 03/24] arm: Remove COMMAND_LINE

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Date:   Thu, 23 Feb 2023 14:11:55 +0100
From:   Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/24] arm: Remove COMMAND_LINE_SIZE from uapi

On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 2:09 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2023, at 10:54, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 2:05 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2023, at 13:59, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 08:49:04AM +0100, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> >> >> From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...osinc.com>
> >> >>
> >> >> As far as I can tell this is not used by userspace and thus should not
> >> >> be part of the user-visible API.
> >> >>
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...osinc.com>
> >> >
> >> > Looks good to me. What's the merge plan for this?
> >>
> >> The easiest way is probably if I merge it through the whole
> >> series through the asm-generic tree. The timing is a bit
> >> unfortunate as we're just ahead of the merge window, so unless
> >> we really need this in 6.3, I'd suggest that Alexandre resend
> >> the series to me in two weeks with the Acks added in and I'll
> >> pick it up for 6.4.
> >
> > Sorry for the response delay, I was waiting to see if Palmer would
> > merge my KASAN patchset in 6.3 (which he does): I have to admit that
> > fixing the command line size + the KASAN patchset would allow 6.3 to
> > run on syzkaller, which would be nice.
> >
> > If I don't see this merged in 6.3, I'll send another round as you
> > suggested in 1 week now :)
>
> Hi Alexandre,
>
> I have no plans to still pick up the series for 6.3. The patches
> all look fine to me, but it's clearly too late now. What is the
> actual dependency for KASAN, do you just need a longer command
> line or something else? If it's just the command line size,
> I would suggest that Palmer can still pick up a oneline change
> to increase it and refer to this thread in the changelog as a
> reference for why it is not an actual UAPI break.

Indeed, we only need a longer command line size. I'll ask Palmer to do
that then, thanks!

Alex

>
>      Arnd