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Re: [PATCH v15 0/9] open: introduce openat2(2) syscall
- From: Christian Brauner <christian dot brauner at ubuntu dot com>
- To: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium dot org>, Al Viro <viro at zeniv dot linux dot org dot uk>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation dot org>
- Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar at cyphar dot com>, Jeff Layton <jlayton at kernel dot org>, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields at fieldses dot org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb dot de>, David Howells <dhowells at redhat dot com>, Shuah Khan <shuah at kernel dot org>, Shuah Khan <skhan at linuxfoundation dot org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat dot com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead dot org>, Eric Biederman <ebiederm at xmission dot com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto at kernel dot org>, Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation dot org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast at kernel dot org>, Jann Horn <jannh at google dot com>, Tycho Andersen <tycho at tycho dot ws>, David Drysdale <drysdale at google dot com>, Chanho Min <chanho dot min at lge dot com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat dot com>, Rasmus Villemoes <linux at rasmusvillemoes dot dk>, Alexander Shishkin <alexander dot shishkin at linux dot intel dot com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa at redhat dot com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung at kernel dot org>, Christian Brauner <christian at brauner dot io>, Aleksa Sarai <asarai at suse dot de>, containers at lists dot linux-foundation dot org, linux-alpha at vger dot kernel dot org, linux-api at vger dot kernel dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, linux-arch at vger dot kernel dot org, linux-arm-kernel at lists dot infradead dot org, linux-fsdevel at vger dot kernel dot org, linux-ia64 at vger dot kernel dot org, linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org, linux-kselftest at vger dot kernel dot org, linux-m68k at lists dot linux-m68k dot org, linux-mips at vger dot kernel dot org, linux-parisc at vger dot kernel dot org, linuxppc-dev at lists dot ozlabs dot org, linux-s390 at vger dot kernel dot org, linux-sh at vger dot kernel dot org, linux-xtensa at linux-xtensa dot org, sparclinux at vger dot kernel dot org
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:06:48 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 0/9] open: introduce openat2(2) syscall
- References: <20191105090553.6350-1-cyphar@cyphar.com> <20191111132404.y523iqicbn6fivx5@yavin.dot.cyphar.com> <201911121457.7D02692@keescook>
On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 03:01:26PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:24:04AM +1100, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> > On 2019-11-05, Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> wrote:
> > > This patchset is being developed here:
> > > <https://github.com/cyphar/linux/tree/openat2/master>
> > >
> > > Patch changelog:
> > > v15:
> > > * Fix code style for LOOKUP_IN_ROOT handling in path_init(). [Linus Torvalds]
> > > * Split out patches for each individual LOOKUP flag.
> > > * Reword commit messages to give more background information about the
> > > series, as well as mention the semantics of each flag in more detail.
> > > [...]
> >
> > Ping -- this patch hasn't been touched for a week. Thanks.
>
> If I've been following correctly, everyone is happy with this series.
> (i.e. Linus's comment appear to have been addressed.)
>
> Perhaps the next question is should this go via a pull request by you to
> Linus directly during the v5.5 merge window, via akpm, via akpm, via
> Christian, or some other path? Besides Linus, it's not been clear who
> should "claim" this series. :)
I like this series and the same with the copy_struct_from_user() part of
it I've taken I'm happy to stuff this into a dedicated branch, merge it
into my for-next and send it for v5.5.
Though I'd _much_ rather see Al pick this up or have him give his
blessing first.
Christian