linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add mm folks as reviewers to rust alloc

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <8ccd13b7-3708-4167-b62b-cc7e2b3ccced@lucifer.local>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 20:33:10 +0100
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
        Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add mm folks as reviewers to rust alloc

On Tue, Jul 08, 2025 at 09:31:05PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> Hi Lorenzo,
>
> On 7/8/25 8:37 PM, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > The alloc implementation is a thin wrapper over slab/vmalloc, so to help
>
> It's much more than that, as far as MM is concerned this is true (no need to
> change this in the commit message).

Ah sorry, feel free to adjust.

I think as we were talking wrt mm bits this was the take away from _that side_
rather than rust one :)

>
> > out on the mm side of things and to be cc'd on changes, add some mm people
> > as reviewers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
>
> Thanks a lot for sending this patch, it is very welcome! I will apply it once I
> have an ACK from Vlastimil, Liam and Uladzislau.

Cheers! I have pinged all concerned ahead of time so should be formality.

>
> > ---
> >   MAINTAINERS | 4 ++++
> >   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 71599ab6bd56..54dd937160ac 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -21751,6 +21751,10 @@ K:	\b(?i:rust)\b
> >   RUST [ALLOC]
> >   M:	Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
> > +R:	Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
> > +R:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> > +R:	Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>
> > +R:	Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>
> >   L:	rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org
> >   S:	Maintained
> >   T:	git https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux.git alloc-next
>