From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
"open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK"
<linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
marcandre.lureau@redhat.com, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next 1/2] mm/memfd: make F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal more robust
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 07:07:06 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181121070658.011d576d@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181120183926.GA124387@google.com>
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Hi Joel,
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 10:39:26 -0800 Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 07:13:17AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 9:21 PM Joel Fernandes (Google)
> > <joel@joelfernandes.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > A better way to do F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal was discussed [1] last week
> > > where we don't need to modify core VFS structures to get the same
> > > behavior of the seal. This solves several side-effects pointed out by
> > > Andy [2].
> > >
> > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181111173650.GA256781@google.com/
> > > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/69CE06CC-E47C-4992-848A-66EB23EE6C74@amacapital.net/
> > >
> > > Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> > > Fixes: 5e653c2923fd ("mm: Add an F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal to memfd")
> >
> > What tree is that commit in? Can we not just fold this in?
>
> It is in linux-next. Could we keep both commits so we have the history?
Well, its in Andrew's mmotm, so its up to him.
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-20 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-20 5:21 [PATCH -next 1/2] mm/memfd: make F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal more robust Joel Fernandes (Google)
2018-11-20 5:21 ` [PATCH -next 2/2] selftests/memfd: modify tests for F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal Joel Fernandes (Google)
2018-11-22 23:21 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-11-20 15:13 ` [PATCH -next 1/2] mm/memfd: make F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal more robust Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-20 18:39 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-11-20 20:07 ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2018-11-20 20:33 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-20 20:47 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-11-20 21:02 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-20 21:13 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-11-22 2:27 ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-22 3:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-22 23:09 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-11-25 0:42 ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-25 0:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-11-26 13:35 ` Joel Fernandes
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