On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 02:44:43PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> > Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 16:41:01 +0000 > > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 10:35:24AM -0500, David Miller wrote: > >> From: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> > >> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 00:20:27 +0000 > >> > >> > 1) massage sys_socketpair() (should be a pure cleanup) > >> > 2) fix and clean up kcm_clone() (-stable fodder) > >> > 3) switch sock_alloc_file() to new calling conventions. > >> > > >> > It got some local testing, but it certainly needs more review. > >> > Diffstat for the entire thing is > >> > >> Series looks great to me: > >> > >> Acked-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> > > > > How do you prefer it to be handled? KCM one should go into everything > > since 4.6 (with trivial modifications in 4.11 and 4.12 - both had > > massaged the place around the call of kcm_clone() a bit, but this fix > > overwrites the entire area and that can be dropped into earlier > > kernels without any problems). I've put that into vfs.git#net-fixes > > and have the other two in vfs.git#for-davem on top of that, with > > you merging the latter into net-next.git and the former - into net.git. > > Is that OK with you, or would you prefer some other way of handling > > that kind of stuff? > > Why don't you resubmit this to netdev as a non-RFC, I'll queue it up to > 'net' and -stable as well.
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