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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>,
	Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Alexandre Bounine <alex.bou9@gmail.com>,
	Jing Xiangfeng <jingxiangfeng@huawei.com>,
	Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
	Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>,
	"Gustavo A . R . Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rapidio: Avoid bogus __alloc_size warning
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 23:29:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202109092327.C582B074C@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210909224814.7460f8dfa3134742b90b34eb@linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 10:48:14PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2021 07:50:10 +0300 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> > This is how the email looks like to Andrew.
> > 
> > https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/images/sylpheed2-mainwindow.png
> > 
> > Try to find the subject in that nonsense.  Same for everyone else on
> > email as well.
> > 
> > https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=163120404328790&w=2
> > 
> > I only either read the subject or the body of the commit message and
> > never both.  :P
> 
> I read the body if the subject looks relevant ;)
> 
> But that subject reads to me as "rapidio: Avoid bogus *blah* warning". 
> We have soooooo many alloc_foo functions that one's eyes glaze over
> something like "alloc_size"
> 
> Why?  Because the identifier "__alloc_size" is of great significance
> to Kees because he wrote the thing.  Everyone else just sees "*blah*".

Heh. Okay, fair enough. I will make Subject/body independent. It felt
redundant to me before, but greater verbosity is a good idea. Sorry!

-- 
Kees Cook

      reply	other threads:[~2021-09-10  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-09 16:14 [PATCH] rapidio: Avoid bogus __alloc_size warning Kees Cook
2021-09-09 20:27 ` Andrew Morton
2021-09-09 22:26   ` John Hubbard
2021-09-09 22:51   ` Kees Cook
2021-09-09 23:11     ` Andrew Morton
2021-09-10  1:52       ` Kees Cook
2021-09-10  4:50         ` Dan Carpenter
2021-09-10  5:48           ` Andrew Morton
2021-09-10  6:29             ` Kees Cook [this message]

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