On Fri, 2017-05-12 at 18:16 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This series was inspired by two recent events: talking to a academic
> researcher about the harm of function pointer casts for static
> analysis
> at a conference, and reading up the whole Grsecurity drama, including
> finding that their patchset does a lot of work to remove these casts
> in sunrpc and nfs (and in fact those seem the biggest culprit in the
> kernel), and constifying the operation vectors like so many others in
> the kernel, although done in a rather hacky and/or mechnical way.
>
> Note that the first part of the series is about the RPC forechannel,
> and the latter about the backchannel, but due to bidirection
> operation
> in NFSv4 there is no really clean split between the client and server
> parts.
>
> Changes from RFC:
> - move procedure call counters into separate arrays
>
How should we proceed to merge this series? Given that it is changing a
lot of function headers, but not actually changing functionality, might
it be possible to merge it out-of-band with the merge window (e.g. next
week) in order to minimise the amount of work needed to fix up future
patches?
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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer, PrimaryData
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