Re: [PATCH v12 01/13] sk_run_filter: add support for custom load_pointer

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On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 16:57:49 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hi Kees,
>> >
>> > On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 15:37:12 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Is it time to pull this into -next so more people can feel it? I brought
>> >> Andy Lutomirski's patches forward (needed to bump the prctl values), and
>> >> updated my git tree. If we're ready, here it is in all its request-pull
>> >> format glory:
>> >>
>> >> The following changes since commit 2422c8368337196594265d52cad7316c9404bfcf:
>> >> __ Stephen Rothwell (1):
>> >> __ __ __ __ Add linux-next specific files for 20120301
>> >
>> > OK, not commenting on anything else, but I cannot merge that into
>> > linux-next because it is based on yesterday's linux-next release and
>> > linux-next (effectively) rebases every day ...
>> >
>> > Does this work depend on anything in linux-next? __Or could it be just
>> > based off Linus' tree. __If it depends on other tree(s) merged into
>> > linux-next, then you should base your tree on those tree(s) as long as
>> > they never get rebased ...
>>
>> Unfortunately, yes, it does -- there were both ptrace changes and prctl changes.
>>
>> And at least the ptrace changes are, IIRC, in -mm, which has no tree.
>> :P Given that, what's the best thing for me to do for this to be easy
>> for you to pull?
>
> Base the tree on mainline and wreck the -mm patches I guess.  I'm good
> at unwrecking patches.
>
> That assumes that we're going to merge this stuff into 3.4 - if we
> don't, unwrecker gets rewrecked and grumpy.
>
> I don't know if we're going to merge it into 3.4?  I haven't been
> paying a lot of attention and haven't looked at the patches in a while.
>

I'll roll a v13 which is just a rebase back onto mainline and see if I
can just stage it in kees's tree.

Thanks!
will
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