Re: KASLR support on ARM with Kernel 4.9 and 4.14

2020-09-29 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 at 22:28, Kees Cook wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 08:33:59PM +0530, Pintu Agarwal wrote: > > This is regarding the KASLR feature support on ARM for the kernel > > version 4.9 and 4.14. > > > > Is KASLR supported on ARM-32 Linux 4.9 and above ? > > Sorry, this feature did

Read the "real_parent" field of task_struct

2020-09-29 Thread John Wood
Hi, I'm working in a LSM that uses the task_alloc hook to do some work. This hook needs to check the "real_parent" field hold by the task_struct structure. I'm very confused since navigating the source code I see many different ways to access this field. I don't understand why every method is

Re: [Cocci] coccinelle: Convert comma to semicolons (was Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add test for comma use that should be semicolon)

2020-09-29 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, Sep 24 2020 at 13:33, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2020-09-24 at 22:19 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 22 2020 at 09:07, Julia Lawall wrote: >> > On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Joe Perches wrote: >> > > True enough for a general statement, though the coccinelle >> > > script Julia

Re: KASLR support on ARM with Kernel 4.9 and 4.14

2020-09-29 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 at 22:47, Kees Cook wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 10:37:01PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 at 22:28, Kees Cook wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 08:33:59PM +0530, Pintu Agarwal wrote: > > > > This is regarding the KASLR feature support on

Re: [Cocci] coccinelle: Convert comma to semicolons (was Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add test for comma use that should be semicolon)

2020-09-29 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, Aug 22 2020 at 09:07, Julia Lawall wrote: > On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Joe Perches wrote: >> True enough for a general statement, though the coccinelle >> script Julia provided does not change a single instance of >> for loop expressions with commas. >> >> As far as I can tell, no logic defect

Re: What to do when a patch set gets no reply for 3 weeks ?

2020-09-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg KH wrote: > repost it and don't worry about it, maintainers get behind. Will do. > Also, I think the scsi list wants developers to help review other > patches, right? Why not help out with that while you wait for your > patches to be reviewed? My SCSI knowledge is concentrated on

Re: What to do when a patch set gets no reply for 3 weeks ?

2020-09-29 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:26:20PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i sent my first patch set three weeks ago. See: > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-scsi/20200908120207.5014-1-scdbac...@gmx.net/T/#u > > It was made with > git format-patch > and sent by > git send-email > to the

What to do when a patch set gets no reply for 3 weeks ?

2020-09-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i sent my first patch set three weeks ago. See: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-scsi/20200908120207.5014-1-scdbac...@gmx.net/T/#u It was made with git format-patch and sent by git send-email to the addresses which were proposed here. In linux-scsi it showed up after a day. Then i