2023-07-12 20:15:04

by Kees Cook

Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Foolishly claim maintainership of string routines

Since the string API is tightly coupled with FORTIFY_SOURCE, I am
offering myself up as maintainer for it. Thankfully Andy is already a
reviewer and can keep me on the straight and narrow.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
---
MAINTAINERS | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 3be1bdfe8ecc..b639d6123856 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -8672,8 +8672,11 @@ S: Maintained
F: drivers/input/touchscreen/resistive-adc-touch.c

GENERIC STRING LIBRARY
+M: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
R: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]>
-S: Maintained
+L: [email protected]
+S: Supported
+T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git for-next/hardening
F: include/linux/string.h
F: include/linux/string_choices.h
F: include/linux/string_helpers.h
--
2.34.1

2023-07-13 11:43:25

by Andy Shevchenko

Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Foolishly claim maintainership of string routines

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 10:46 PM Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Since the string API is tightly coupled with FORTIFY_SOURCE, I am
> offering myself up as maintainer for it. Thankfully Andy is already a
> reviewer and can keep me on the straight and narrow.

Makes sense to me!
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]>

> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 3be1bdfe8ecc..b639d6123856 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -8672,8 +8672,11 @@ S: Maintained
> F: drivers/input/touchscreen/resistive-adc-touch.c
>
> GENERIC STRING LIBRARY
> +M: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
> R: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]>
> -S: Maintained
> +L: [email protected]
> +S: Supported
> +T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git for-next/hardening
> F: include/linux/string.h
> F: include/linux/string_choices.h
> F: include/linux/string_helpers.h
> --
> 2.34.1
>


--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko