Re: [GIT PULL] Kernel lockdown for secure boot
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) or rather, it's probably viable only for distributions that already have reasons to only care about controlled hardware environments, ie Chromebooks etc. Chromebooks...
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Why not enable it by default then? by default then? And if "turn off secure boot" really is the accepted - and actuially used - workaround for the breakage, then used -...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] libata changes for v4.17-rc1
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] hotplug, so very few are hitting it. People hotplug ATA _controllers_? :-O People hotplug ATA _controllers_? :-O As opposed to just the disks a'la eSATA?...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] Kernel lockdown for secure boot
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Things like disk encryption (common for a lot of people) for example means that you simply won't be booting that machine without the user noticing. be booting that...
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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It took closer to a hundred emails (ok, so I'm exaggerating, but not _that_ much) until the *real* reason for the tie-in was actually exposed. tie-in was actually...
View ArticleRe: [GIT pull] irq updates for 4.17
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] will fail on some ARM randconfigs. If it's only some (not very realistic) randconfigs, I suspect an incremental fix is probably the easier solution, rather...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 00/11] [v4] Use global pages with PTI
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] filtering when CR4.PGE=0 or PGE is unsupported. I couldn't see anything odd in this, but I only read the explanations and the patches, and the devil is in...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] x86/build changes for v4.17
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Other examples of where the kernel doesn't want the compiler to do "the standard says this is undefined so I can take shortcuts" include: "the standard says this is...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v2] tracing, printk: Force no hashing when trace_printk ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] hash... That still seems broken. That still seems broken. The *natural* thing to do would seem to be to tie the hash to the printk state, kind of like the...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] x86/build changes for v4.17
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) If clang actually did proper optimization, it would have noticed that the "offset backwards" was followed by an "offset forwards" and then a NULL pointer check, and...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] x86/build changes for v4.17
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 2:46 PM, Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org> wrote: [...] I understand this is annoying, but it seems I'm missing something: I think...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] x86/build changes for v4.17
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] overflow. But that's not what the code does. But that's not what the code does. It never _accessed_ the field. An access would in fact have been a bug (and...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] x86/build changes for v4.17
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] keep our compiler folks (halfway) sane? I don't know if clang actually already gets this right or not, but as an example of a case where we have a semantic...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 06/12] fscache: Detect multiple relinquishment of a cookie
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) They can often cause the machine to be basically dead. often cause the machine to be basically dead. This one seem fairly ok, simply because it looks like the only...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] x86/build changes for v4.17
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Another example of that can be found in our x86 bit operations macros: Another example of that can be found in our x86 bit operations macros: static __always_inline...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] Staging/IIO driver changes for 4.17-rc1
Linus Torvalds writes: On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 3:32 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: [...] networking code. Hmm. The irda sysctl tables are still there in the kernel. Overlooked?...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] gup: return -EFAULT on access_ok failure
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] through the vhost tree unless someone objects. NAK. NAK. __get_user_pages_fast() returns the number of pages it gets. It has never returned an error code,...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] sound updates for 4.17-rc1
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:18 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote: [...] been the leftover of the previous bad pull request. Oh, so they might be from the bad...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] gup: return -EFAULT on access_ok failure
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) "read()" at past the end of a file is not an error, you'll just get 0 for EOF. for EOF. So it's not really "returning 0 on error". That number of pages can be smaller...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] sound updates for 4.17-rc1
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) THIS IS NEVER EVER AUTOMATED! THIS IS NEVER EVER AUTOMATED! It shouldn't even be scripted, because this shouldn't be about tens of branches anyway, and it certainly...
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