Re: [PATCH 04/20] FIEMAP: don't bother with access_ok()

From: Al Viro
Date: Fri May 29 2020 - 11:01:53 EST


On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 12:38:01PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 08:02:07PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20200507145924.GA28854@xxxxxx/T/#t
> > >
> > > which is waiting to be picked up [1], and also has some chance for conflicts
> > > due to changes next to the access_ok.
> > >
> > > [1] except for the first two patches, which Ted plans to send for 5.7
> >
> > I can drop this commit, of course, it's not a prereq for anything else in there.
> > Or I could pick your series into never-rebased branch, but it would complicate
> > the life wrt ext4 tree - up to you and Ted...
>
> I really don't care - the first two really need to go in ASAP and
> Ted promised to pick them up, but I've not seen them in linux-next
> yet. The rest can go wherever once the first ones hit mainline.

OK, dropped