Re: [PATCH] ipc: explicitly clear stack memory in user structs

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Nov 09 2010 - 18:09:25 EST


On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:46:30 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Kees Cook <kees.cook@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > No one has committed it. I don't know why; I've sent it a few times now.
>
> You seem to have sent it just to lkml. At least in this case the patch
> itself was not sent to me (only the subsequent replies were), and the
> choice of recipients was fairly odd apart from Andrew (who probably
> _is_ the right person).

It's in my backlog queue. Waaaay back.

The -rc1 merging and kermel summit put me way behind (again) and when
I'm way behind, I start to work in reverse order (mainly to avoid
looking at older versions of patches). And when I'm working in
time-reverse order, things which were sent a long time ago get delayed
even more.

The good news is that the longer I take to merge something, the less
likely it is that I'll actually merge it ;) Either it got shot down or
a new version came out or someone else merged it.

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