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Date:   Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:50:27 +0000
From:   Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] usercopy whitelisting for v4.15-rc1
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On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 01:13:10PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So the hardening efforts should instead _start_ from the standpoint of
> "let's warn about what looks dangerous, and maybe in a _year_ when
> we've warned for a long time, and we are confident that we've actually
> caught all the normal cases, _then_ we can start taking more drastic
> measures".

Can you clarify a little with regard to how you'd have liked this 
patchset to look? With 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/commit/?h=usercopy-v4.15-rc1&id=93edfb33387772a9ae7693ddf9811280ffc4025b 
it seems pretty like we're at the end goal you've described (default to 
a mode that generates a warning rather than returning an error), so is 
it just that this appeared at the end of the patchset development 
process rather than being there from the beginning?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

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