oss-security - Re: [PATCH 1/3] setup_arg_pages: diagnose excessive argument size

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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:33:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
To: pageexec@...email.hu
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
        Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>,
        Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>, Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] setup_arg_pages: diagnose excessive argument size

Readability and obviousness are in the eye of the beholder.   
Linus has merged my patches, so this crash is now fixed.  
As I said before, you should by all means send further clean-up
patches if you think they are improvements.

I have no special interest in this area.  I gave my opinions and
advice because I was CC'd, and then submitted some patches myself
because I was asked to.  I can't really keep track of all the
formalities.  The CC list on my submissions represented the set
of people I knew to be involved in the discussion.  I'm sorry if
you felt slighted.  I just pay attention to the code, not the
personalities.  The most reliable way to make sure your name is
associated with a change is to submit patches yourself in a form
that Linus wants to merge.

Thanks,
Roland

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