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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Various fixes related to ptrace_may_access()
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On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 17:57:05 -0600 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> wrote:
> > Next try.
> >
> > Changes to the individual patches are mostly documented in their
> > commit messages.
> >
> > Added/removed patches:
> >  - Added "proc: fix timerslack_ns handling"
> >  - Removed "ptrace: warn on ptrace_may_access without proper locking"
> >    (because of some reverted changes in the "proc: lock properly [...]"
> >    patch)
> 
> So I'm a bit unsure which tree this series is going to come in
> through. There's no clear maintinership for this area, so I'm just
> making sure that Andrew has this on his radar because I suspect this
> is going to fall in his lap.
> 
> Oleg, you're really the obvious maintainer choice at least for some of
> this, but I don't recall having ever pulled from you? If you are ok
> with this and were to put  git tree etc, that would certainly also
> work very well.  Or at least ack's for Andrew?

Yup, I was cc'ed and it is on my radar.  It's a little hard to tell
from the discussion, but I *think* we'll be seeing a v4 series?