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Date:   Wed, 16 Feb 2022 08:20:02 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/13] Fix LKDTM for PPC64/IA64/PARISC v4
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 11:22:33PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> writes:
> > On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 01:40:55PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> >> PPC64/IA64/PARISC have function descriptors. LKDTM doesn't work
> >> on those three architectures because LKDTM messes up function
> >> descriptors with functions.
> >> 
> >> This series does some cleanup in the three architectures and
> >> refactors function descriptors so that it can then easily use it
> >> in a generic way in LKDTM.
> >
> > Thanks for doing this! It looks good to me. :)
> 
> How should we merge this series, it's a bit all over the map.
> 
> I could put it in a topic branch?

That's fine by me -- I had assumed it'd go via the ppc tree. But if
you'd rather I take it as a topic branch I can do that too.

-- 
Kees Cook