From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934379AbaFIW5W (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2014 18:57:22 -0400 Received: from mail-ve0-f173.google.com ([209.85.128.173]:41309 "EHLO mail-ve0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934722AbaFIW5T (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2014 18:57:19 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1401332999-15167-1-git-send-email-eparis@redhat.com> <20140609223057.GB18475@kroah.com> From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 15:56:58 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] auditsc: audit_krule mask accesses need bounds checking To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Greg KH , Eric Paris , linux-audit@redhat.com, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >> Hmm. It seems that it didn't make it into Linus' tree. Crap. > > I assume that if there is a maintainer who normally sends me stuff by > git, when I see patches in emails they are just informational > heads-ups about stuff that is being discussed or pending, and that > I'll see it later in a pull request. So I just ignore them unless I > have specific comments, since clearly the emailed patch is just > informational and/or for comments/acks from others. > > The exception is unless it *VERY CLEARLY* says otherwise (as in > "Linus, can you please take this directly due to xyz"). > > Because why would somebody send me a patch series sometimes, and git > trees at other times? That would just be stupid. In this particular case, it's my patch, and I've never sent you a pull request. I sort of assumed that security@kernel.org magically caused acknowledged fixes to end up in your tree. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do here. Maybe the confusion is because Eric resent the patch? --Andy