Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] netlink: Reverse the patch which removed filtering

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Thu Jun 01 2023 - 12:43:23 EST


On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 16:34:08 +0000 Anjali Kulkarni wrote:
> > The code may have security implications, I really don't feel like I can
> > be the sole reviewer. There's a bunch of experts working at Oracle,
> > maybe you could get one of them to put their name on it? I can apply
> > the patches, I just want to be sure I'm not the _only_ reviewer.
>
> Thanks so much for your response. There is someone at Oracle who
> looked at this some time ago and is familiar enough with this to
> review the code - but he is not a kernel committer - he sends
> occasional patches upstream which get committed - would it be ok if
> he reviewed it along with you and then you could commit it? If you
> know of someone from Oracle who could also potentially review it,
> please let me know.

I meant someone seasoned. IMHO one of the benefits of employing
upstream experts for corporation like Oracle should be that you
can lean on them for reviews:

$ git log --format='%ae' --author='Oracle' --since='2 years ago' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
811 willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
312 rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
91 Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx
60 vishal.moola@xxxxxxxxx

$ git log --format='%ae' --author='@oracle.com' --since='2 years ago' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -10
451 chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx
154 michael.christie@xxxxxxxxxx
118 nick.alcock@xxxxxxxxxx
71 martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx
59 mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx
58 sidhartha.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx
55 liam.howlett@xxxxxxxxxx
53 anand.jain@xxxxxxxxxx
32 dai.ngo@xxxxxxxxxx
32 allison.henderson@xxxxxxxxxx