From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (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 1ED9537C89 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:38:26 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="QMC5eqXm" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 01502C433C8; Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:38:26 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1698421106; bh=z2XypgoUj4CyDsDS5E6xO0hRTOqveOmWXo6hbGyXGyc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=QMC5eqXmrQZEMm5335WrTzKNTWUE/mt/wrufjaw6FA/EMZqkyuo9jir8Onc/GmJqz deyKoxWMLKwh+skhGvMJbS1uI5TfmC5iFIvaR8uGr9jtny4INAf4hQDnrU6dMw+7Yq rj56BEtogQu730ScQ5OI2FKl4R3Ai2zA8drwg0MM= Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 17:38:23 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Pawan Gupta Cc: Borislav Petkov , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Dave Hansen , x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Peter Zijlstra , Josh Poimboeuf , Andy Lutomirski , Jonathan Corbet , Sean Christopherson , Paolo Bonzini , tony.luck@intel.com, ak@linux.intel.com, tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com, Andrew Cooper , Nikolay Borisov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Alyssa Milburn , Daniel Sneddon , antonio.gomez.iglesias@linux.intel.com, Alyssa Milburn , Dave Hansen Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] Delay VERW Message-ID: <2023102733-irk-announcer-4a3a@gregkh> References: <20231027-delay-verw-v4-0-9a3622d4bcf7@linux.intel.com> <20231027144848.GGZTvN0AtGIQ9kBtkA@fat_crate.local> <20231027150535.s4nlkppsvzeahm7t@desk> <20231027151226.GIZTvTWuQUXdsmt6v3@fat_crate.local> <20231027153242.ruabpxxywhq5upc7@desk> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20231027153242.ruabpxxywhq5upc7@desk> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 08:32:42AM -0700, Pawan Gupta wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 05:12:26PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 08:05:35AM -0700, Pawan Gupta wrote: > > > I am going on a long vacation next week, I won't be working for the rest > > > of the year. So I wanted to get this in a good shape quickly. This > > > patchset addresses some security issues (although theoretical). So there > > > is some sense of urgency. Sorry for spamming, I'll take you off the To: > > > list. > > > > Even if you're leaving for vacation, I'm sure some colleague of yours or > > dhansen will take over this for you. So there's no need to keep sending > > this every day. Imagine everyone who leaves for vacation would start > > doing that... > > I can imagine the amount emails maintainers get. I'll take care of this > in future. But, its good to get some idea on how much is too much, > specially for a security issue? You said it wasn't a security issue (theoretical?) And are we supposed to drop everything for such things? Again, think of the people who are on the other end of your patches please... greg k-h