Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95DECC43217 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 09:00:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S238047AbhL3JA3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Dec 2021 04:00:29 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:51710 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229567AbhL3JA2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Dec 2021 04:00:28 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [IPv6:2607:7c80:54:e::133]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 52BC2C061574; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 01:00:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=vFgwQFGnP1+nZeL5xidq9k2TiaD3WdltS2FPFb0c2qA=; b=hSaUvXVYJLH2XhksKFosQF2YHU dGP5innnv/tBj7GGtJdnhhYyL6mWSDOrz1NIx6rv4mYjbHi7dEyC4CPSPe4JlCgVOyo9rYxQdsD8q EQ8XSLZ5mZRJVuVC5qyz5p9S2SzO0De2a5XnNwxaI0dz1ksfOmZ0YqcwaYGQfKRR1FaxYxnIktniK LSsuBJ9c8O5Bw+3/8Fo5/U5wkfG0lR9oDKlVz9GxIjrQhq2DOKWmaIivzRsc+z3/wCSt2kSTNgWaS SnJjoKqTvyOarGUHx025oaka8eR1wQ0Cxieh8IWOHBM+LfioMEXHdnMqa3mKdC8jNPLJLi0q63zpo LCfE3baA==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1n2rIM-0046EG-3y; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 09:00:22 +0000 Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 01:00:22 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Alexander Lobakin Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, Jesse Brandeburg , Kristen Carlson Accardi , Kees Cook , Miklos Szeredi , Ard Biesheuvel , Tony Luck , Bruce Schlobohm , Jessica Yu , kernel test robot , Miroslav Benes , Evgenii Shatokhin , Jonathan Corbet , Masahiro Yamada , Michal Marek , Nick Desaulniers , Herbert Xu , "David S. Miller" , Thomas Gleixner , Will Deacon , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andy Lutomirski , Peter Zijlstra , Arnd Bergmann , Josh Poimboeuf , Nathan Chancellor , Masami Hiramatsu , Marios Pomonis , Sami Tolvanen , "H.J. Lu" , Nicolas Pitre , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, live-patching@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 00/15] Function Granular KASLR Message-ID: References: <20211223002209.1092165-1-alexandr.lobakin@intel.com> <20211227183318.1447690-1-alexandr.lobakin@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20211227183318.1447690-1-alexandr.lobakin@intel.com> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 07:33:18PM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote: > From: Christoph Hellwig > Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 22:38:14 -0800 > > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 01:21:54AM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote: > > > This is a massive rework and a respin of Kristen Accardi's marvellous > > > FG-KASLR series (v5). > > > > Here would be the place to explain what this series actually does and > > why it is marvellous. > > As I took this project over from another developer/team, I decided > to preserve the original cover letter and append it to the end of > mine, as well as to keep most of the original code in the separate > commits from mine. > For sure I could redo this if needed, is it really so? A cover letter needs to explain what you're doing for the reader. No one is going to page forever to look for that.