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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Sat, 14 Jul 2018 18:57:57 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel.h: Avoid that sparse complains about using sizeof(void)
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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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-dev

which also ends up fixing a lot of other issues.

                Linus