Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] Remove false-positive VLAs when using max()
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 1:07 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> So thanks to the diseased mind of Martin Uecker, there's a better test for "__is_constant()":...
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 4:23 PM, Linus Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:[...] even depend on any gcc extensions. Well, it does depend on...
View ArticleRe: detecting integer constant expressions in macros
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) That might be the right approach, even if I like how it only used standard C (although _disgusting_ standard C) without it apart from the small issue of sizeof(void)...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] kbuild: disable clang's default use of -fmerge-all-con ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) And thanks for noticing the behavior wrt the correct gcc merging. the correct gcc merging.[...] lot for your feedback! ] So since it's your patch and the only known...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 0/3] kernel: add support for 256-bit IO access
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Of course all those features are enabled. course all those features are enabled.[...] Note that this is with an AVX (128-bit) supporting CPU: That's weak even by modern...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] target: Use WARNON_NON_RT(!irqs_disabled())
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) [ Adding PeterZ to participants due to query about lockdep_assert() ] [ Adding PeterZ to participants due to query about lockdep_assert() ] On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 8:38...
View ArticleRe: syzbot dashboard
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) At that point, *if* a report has a reproducer, then sending reminders to people with "this still happens, here's a link to the syzkaller page for this report" might be...
View ArticleRe: detecting integer constant expressions in macros
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) For an expression that isn't constant, it's a bit less obvious, and depends on knowing that "~x+1" is the same as "-x" in 2's complement. "-x" in 2's complement. Of...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 2/3] x86/io: implement 256-bit IO read and write
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:[...] memcpy_fromio or memcpy_toio operations? Yes, doing something like "memcpy_fromio_avx()" is much more palatable, in that it works like the crypto functions...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v5 0/2] Remove false-positive VLAs when using max()
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] Seems like it doesn't like void * arguments: Yeah, that was discussed separately, I just didn't realize we had any such users. such users. As David said,...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 0/3] kernel: add support for 256-bit IO access
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I think this is the really fundamental issue. I think this is the really fundamental issue. A device that expects PIO to do some kind of high-performance transaction is...
View ArticleRe: [RFC PATCH 2/3] x86/io: implement 256-bit IO read and write
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It's the low-volume stuff that almost nobody uses and where the customer is used to the whole notion of boutique hardware, so they're used to having to do special...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 23/45] sched: add do_sched_yield() helper; remove in-ke ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) We should encourage people to always send at least the cover-page to everybody who gets cc'd, even if they don't get the whole series. get the whole series. Anyway, to...
View ArticleRe: Any chance that kernel/uid6.c can go? [Was: [PATCH 22/45] kern ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) And those old uid system calls would be very much part of it. it. Sadly, I don't know where those old binaries are. There was a "bash.Z" as part of the 0.01 release....
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 00/45] remove in-kernel syscall invocations (part 3 == ...
Linus Torvalds writes: On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 2:00 AM, Dominik Brodowski<linux@dominikbrodowski.net> wrote:[...] the syscall entry path can be streamlined. Looks good to me. Looks good to me....
View ArticleRe: syzbot dashboard
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I think the email should contain just the "report" and then a link to the full information. link to the full information. That would seem to be a good enough summary to...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] ACPI fixes for v4.16-rc7
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 4:05 PM, Rafael J. wrote: [...] acpi-4.16-rc4 I get I get fatal: Couldn't find remote ref acpi-4.16-rc4 fatal: Couldn't find remote ref...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] target: Use WARNON_NON_RT(!irqs_disabled())
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Please just delete both lines. Please just delete both lines. There is exactly two callers of that static function, and both of them do There is exactly two callers of...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 00/11] Use global pages with PTI
Linus Torvalds writes: On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Dave Hansen<dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> wrote:[...] keeps us from having to create any new pti=foo options Sounds sane. Sounds sane. The...
View ArticleRe: syzbot dashboard
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) But that's still a bugfix. bugfix. So I think the config can stay purely on the web (for when you go "so how do I *reproduce* this?") along with the actual reproducer...
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