On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 06:57:57PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 6:49 PM Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org wrote:
I'm fine with this; it'll only activate for sparse. I'd like to get Linus's eyes on it, though, since this macro caused us SO much pain that I'm nervous to change it without some greater level of review. :)
Honestly, I'd like to just encourage people to get the sparse update from Luc Van Oostenryck instead.
For a while there it looked like Chris Li would just pull from Luc, and we'd have timely releases, but that really doesn't seem to have ended up happening after all. So right now it's probably just best to get Luc's tree instead from
https://github.com/lucvoo/sparse-devwhich also ends up fixing a lot of other issues.
Thank you.
I'll try to move my trees to kernel.org in the coming days or weeks, it will be better for everyone, I think (I just need one more signature on my gpg key).
Meanwhile, I prefer that people use my 'stable' tree: https://github.com/lucvoo/sparse (never rebased, only contains the master branch and one backport) while my sparse-dev repository is mainly a bunch of topic branches in diverse state of development (but the master branch is the same so it doesn't matter much).
-- Luc