From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C76A33630BF; Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:44:56 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1791999898; cv=none; b=Dc1TYLYG+fNLL87FnhtG13ALZqiONB0+tF1fWo03zLBNGw9n5iEsQkEq8gfnXVCVc+S7sDEijtkIsCilXPcYK8GokYEWTRd90+dN2tsduVkrIHitGHEqqW9ut27DVAgVNncqJGgdIVKwY8lcMnl5sxhzmURR7cviu7Dq80Vl0S8= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1791999898; c=relaxed/simple; bh=4AbmuGaQmg8yTQKRE3P7KnMLvr6mh8Ei2C0jhRF37cs=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=fFyM7PKc95k5I4lS7+DWzH7JUT+y8I9oppGvPmdAcjTcKUOlkozhPLghs6o3ajntIJS29Ae5HyIN0fMSOw0uDGNyuccBThGaMTxJ/XLBkEy0A3TjftpIMiwLG9x3+svr71Q+esWlnsfqAOsZcOZaEs604gIbpcptj4VkR4MLm+g= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=Y/JbqQJU; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="Y/JbqQJU" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 330F01F000C4; Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:44:55 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1791999896; bh=sTxxFIiD6mgFs2UdEY1I8MyQnekZZiyPvhQw7RuhHrg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=Y/JbqQJUIEWFLFscjenxW9GCe5wNUa4lKG/qtufKEMdVe8I7JjwbgDqX5hbrhnbnk g11pdaabApMfzBMkfpM3w5n1u6n4ty6P15W2DYuVy6e5rpnrYB4vdZc0i3KcsTyQQY TKLv1ClTGNe42312p3oiyQs34X3dYVxDiKaB2oxQ= Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:45:00 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Miguel Ojeda Cc: Kees Cook , Ian Rogers , "Rafael J . Wysocki" , Danilo Krummrich , Miguel Ojeda , Nathan Chancellor , Nick Desaulniers , Bill Wendling , Justin Stitt , Jonathan Corbet , Madhavan Srinivasan , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , Christophe Leroy , Nayna Jain , Yoshinori Sato , Rich Felker , John Paul Adrian Glaubitz , Viresh Kumar , David Teigland , Alexander Aring , Juergen Gross , Stefano Stabellini , Oleksandr Tyshchenko , Heiko Carstens , Vasily Gorbik , Alexander Gordeev , Christian Borntraeger , Sven Schnelle , Richard Weinberger , Zhihao Cheng , Felix Kuehling , Alex Deucher , Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6nig?= , driver-core@lists.linux.dev, llvm@lists.linux.dev, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, gfs2@lists.linux.dev, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] kobject: Require explicit initialization of struct kobj_type::release Message-ID: <2026101434-scam-padding-87a5@gregkh> References: <20261013223946.1836757-1-irogers@google.com> <2026101425-why-boring-4f2d@gregkh> <202610140932.5F9CFCE5@keescook> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 06:44:18PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 6:37 PM Kees Cook wrote: > > > > I'd really like to have the attribute available, and I've got at least > > one user I can apply today that don't require fix-ups (seq_file), so > > if Miguel is okay with it, I'd like to snag patch 1 and send it with > > my seq_file "first user" for this coming merge window so it's available > > starting with v7.4-rc1, and we don't end up needing to wait 10 weeks for > > other subsystems to be able to use it. And the kobj fixups can continue > > in parallel. Does that sounds okay? > > Of course, please feel free to pick it up (with the small tweak I > requested) if you have a user. > > And if you don't pick the user, I could still pick the first patch up > through the compiler attributes tree if you and other folks want to > use it after -rc1. > > Greg: adding the attribute itself should be safe and would unblock > others that may want to "protect" themselves, without having to wait > for every potential user to get fixed (but of course I agree they > should get fixed -- we should not forget about them, if that is your > concern). I agree, not a problem to add the attribute now as long as it doesn't break the build. thanks, greg k-h