linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/10] vdso: Misc cleanups and prevent code duplication

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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:26:59 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] vdso: Misc cleanups and prevent code duplication

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 04:39:29PM +0100, Anna-Maria Behnsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the vdso related cleanup queue contains two parts:
> 
> - Patch 1-3: Misc cleanups related to a comment, a superfluous header
> 	     include and ifdeffery
> 
> - Patch 4-10: The union vdso_data_store is defined in seven
>   	      architectures. Make this union available in a generic vdso
>   	      header file to prevent code duplication and fix the
>   	      architectures one by one to use the generic vdso_data_store.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Anna-Maria

I do love a good clean-up! Thanks for this, I looked through all the
patches and they seem correct to me; removed definitions are all
identical, and __page_aligned_data is kept where needed.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook