On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 08:58:44AM +0530, Kaiwan N Billimoria wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 7:20 AM, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> >
> > Noob question: how do we _know_ this. In other words how do we know no
> > userland tools rely on the current behaviour? No stress to answer Kees,
> > this is a p
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 7:20 AM, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
>
> Noob question: how do we _know_ this. In other words how do we know no
> userland tools rely on the current behaviour? No stress to answer Kees,
> this is a pretty general kernel dev question.
Perhaps I'm reading this wrong, but anyway:
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 04:52:21PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > This is an RFC for two reasons.
> >
> > 1) I don't know who this patch set may break?
> > 2) Patch set includes a function that is not called. Function is there
> >to facil
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> This is an RFC for two reasons.
>
> 1) I don't know who this patch set may break?
> 2) Patch set includes a function that is not called. Function is there
>to facilitate fixing breakages.
>
> _If_ no one gets broken then we can remove
This is an RFC for two reasons.
1) I don't know who this patch set may break?
2) Patch set includes a function that is not called. Function is there
to facilitate fixing breakages.
_If_ no one gets broken then we can remove the unused function.
Thanks for looking at this.
Currently if a poin
