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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 17:48:32 -0800
From: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 01/13] sk_run_filter: add support for custom load_pointer

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>> Hi Kees,
>>
>> On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 15:37:12 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is it time to pull this into -next so more people can feel it? I brought
>>> Andy Lutomirski's patches forward (needed to bump the prctl values), and
>>> updated my git tree. If we're ready, here it is in all its request-pull
>>> format glory:
>>>
>>> The following changes since commit 2422c8368337196594265d52cad7316c9404bfcf:
>>>   Stephen Rothwell (1):
>>>         Add linux-next specific files for 20120301
>>
>> OK, not commenting on anything else, but I cannot merge that into
>> linux-next because it is based on yesterday's linux-next release and
>> linux-next (effectively) rebases every day ...
>>
>> Does this work depend on anything in linux-next?  Or could it be just
>> based off Linus' tree.  If it depends on other tree(s) merged into
>> linux-next, then you should base your tree on those tree(s) as long as
>> they never get rebased ...
>
> Unfortunately, yes, it does -- there were both ptrace changes and prctl changes.
>
> And at least the ptrace changes are, IIRC, in -mm, which has no tree.
> :P Given that, what's the best thing for me to do for this to be easy
> for you to pull?
>

IIRC the prctl changes are in -linus.  I can rebase my part onto them.

--Andy

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