From Linus Torvalds <> Date Tue, 21 Nov 2017 04:34:15 -1000 Subject Re: [GIT PULL] usercopy whitelisting for v4.15-rc1 [ this is just a resend of yesterday's mobile html version that got

rejected by the lists, sorry for the duplication ]



On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

>

> Can you clarify a little with regard to how you'd have liked this

> patchset to look?



So I think the actual status of the patches is fairly good with the

default warning.



But what I'd really like to see is to not have to worry so much about

these hardening things. The last set of user access hardening really

was more painful than it might have been.



And largely due to that I was really dreading pulling this one - and

then with 20+ pulls a day because I really wanted to get everything

big merged before travel, I basically ran out of time.



Part of that is probably also because the 4.15 merge window actually

ended up bigger than I expected. I was perhaps naive, but I expected

that because of 4.14 being LTS, this release would be smaller (like

4.9 vs 4.10) but that never happened.



So where I'd really like to be is simply that these pulls wouldn't be

so nerve wracking for me. And that's largely me worrying about the

approach people are taking, which is why I then reacted so strongly to

the whole "warnings came later".



Sorry for the strong words.



Linus



