Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] Renovate memcpy_mcsafe with copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}

2020-09-30 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 09:28:33AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Oh, it's pretty much 100%. Oh good. > I can't imagine what would make me skip an rc8 at this point. > Everything looks good right now (but not rc7, we had a stupid bug), > but I'd rather wait a week than fins another silly bug the

Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] Renovate memcpy_mcsafe with copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}

2020-09-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 9:24 AM Borislav Petkov wrote: > > Ok, I'll try to queue them but pls respin soonish. That is, if Linus > cuts -rc8 we have plenty of time but he didn't sound 100% on the -rc8 > thing. Oh, it's pretty much 100%. I can't imagine what would make me skip an rc8 at this point

Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] Renovate memcpy_mcsafe with copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}

2020-09-30 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 08:49:42AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > There's been a paucity of response on these after converging on the > feedback from Linus. They missed v5.9, and I started casting about for > what could be done to make sure they did not also miss v5.10 if the > quiet continued. The p

Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] Renovate memcpy_mcsafe with copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}

2020-09-30 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 10:05 PM Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 03:32:07PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > Given that Linus was the primary source of review feedback on these > > patches and a version of them have been soaking in -next with only a > > minor conflict report with

Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] Renovate memcpy_mcsafe with copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}

2020-09-29 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 03:32:07PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > Given that Linus was the primary source of review feedback on these > patches and a version of them have been soaking in -next with only a > minor conflict report with vfs.git for the entirety of the v5.9-rc > cycle (left there inadver

Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] Renovate memcpy_mcsafe with copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}

2020-09-29 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:00 AM Dan Williams wrote: > > Changes since v8 [1]: > - Rebase on v5.9-rc6 > > - Fix a performance regression in the x86 copy_mc_to_user() > implementation that was duplicating copies in the "fragile" case. > > - Refreshed the cover letter. > > [1]: > http://lore.kern