On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 07:42:44PM +0200, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 19:11 +0100, David Henningsson wrote: [...] > > > Perhaps adding a comment to your finding and a registered kernel > > bug/patch/etc would be helpful. > > I applied the patch now without any additional comments (I forgot to > add the Acked-by tag before pushing, sorry). I would have added the > comment myself, but I don't know if Ahmed filed any kernel bug. > that a comment would be useful, if only to warn people to not > reintroduce this bug if VLAs turn out to be a problem at some point. > The comment can be submitted in a separate patch once we have the > kernel bug/patch reference, or a decision that no kernel bug or patch > will be submitted. > Yup, will send a kernel patch, then a PA patch with extra comments. regards, -- Darwish http://darwish.chasingpointers.com