From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Modernize tasklet callback API
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 09:03:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7tpa3hg.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200716030847.1564131-1-keescook@chromium.org>
Kees,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> writes:
> This is the infrastructure changes to prepare the tasklet API for
> conversion to passing the tasklet struct as the callback argument instead
> of an arbitrary unsigned long. The first patch details why this is useful
> (it's the same rationale as the timer_struct changes from a bit ago:
> less abuse during memory corruption attacks, more in line with existing
> ways of doing things in the kernel, save a little space in struct,
> etc). Notably, the existing tasklet API use is much less messy, so there
> is less to clean up.
>
> It's not clear to me which tree this should go through... Greg since it
> starts with a USB clean-up, -tip for timer or interrupt, or if I should
> just carry it. I'm open to suggestions, but if I don't hear otherwise,
> I'll just carry it.
>
> My goal is to have this merged for v5.9-rc1 so that during the v5.10
> development cycle the new API will be available. The entire tree of
> changes is here[1] currently, but to split it up by maintainer the
> infrastructure changes need to be landed first.
>
> Review and Acks appreciated! :)
I'd rather see tasklets vanish from the planet completely, but that's
going to be a daring feat. So, grudgingly:
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-31 6:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-16 3:08 [PATCH 0/3] Modernize tasklet callback API Kees Cook
2020-07-16 3:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] usb: gadget: udc: Avoid tasklet passing a global Kees Cook
2020-07-16 7:28 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-16 19:41 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-31 9:20 ` Felipe Balbi
2020-07-16 3:08 ` [PATCH 2/3] treewide: Replace DECLARE_TASKLET() with DECLARE_TASKLET_OLD() Kees Cook
2020-07-16 7:30 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-16 11:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-16 19:15 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-16 3:08 ` [PATCH 3/3] tasklet: Introduce new initialization API Kees Cook
2020-07-16 7:30 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-16 15:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-16 19:22 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-16 7:57 ` [PATCH 0/3] Modernize tasklet callback API Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-16 8:15 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-07-16 19:24 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-16 19:14 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-16 20:48 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2020-07-16 21:24 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-30 7:03 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2020-07-30 18:14 ` Kees Cook
2020-08-03 8:46 ` Allen
2020-08-11 12:16 ` Allen
2020-08-11 21:33 ` Kees Cook
2020-08-12 6:21 ` Takashi Iwai
2020-08-12 11:32 ` Allen
2020-08-12 12:31 ` Allen
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