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Date:   Fri, 9 Oct 2020 15:07:09 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] Clean up kernel_read/kernel_write
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On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 04:47:56AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 03:55:21AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> > Linus asked that NULL pos be allowed to kernel_write() / kernel_read().
> > This set of patches (against Al's for-next tree) does that in the first
> > two patches, and then converts many of the users of kernel_write() /
> > kernel_read() to use a NULL pointer.  I test-compiled as many as I could.
> 
> OK, applied, will push if it survives local beating.

Applied to where?

- Eric