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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
	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: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 13:33:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <469B80CB-D982-4802-A81D-95AC493D7E87@amacapital.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181121070658.011d576d@canb.auug.org.au>


> On Nov 20, 2018, at 1:07 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 

Unless mmotm is more magical than I think, the commit hash in your fixed tag is already nonsense. mmotm gets rebased all the time, and is only barely a git tree.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-20 20:33 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
2018-11-20 20:33       ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
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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