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[86.16.54.28]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-4601f2dcbe3sm41826482f8f.8.2026.06.07.09.04.50 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:04:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2026 17:04:49 +0100 From: Vishal Moola To: Mohammed EL Kadiri Cc: Jonathan Corbet , Andrew Morton , Vlastimil Babka , Matthew Wilcox , David Hildenbrand , Lorenzo Stoakes , Kees Cook , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] docs/mm/slab: document cache isolation with SLAB_NO_MERGE Message-ID: References: <20260606155856.15548-1-med08elkadiri@gmail.com> <20260607070645.9559-1-med08elkadiri@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-hardening@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: <20260607070645.9559-1-med08elkadiri@gmail.com> On Sun, Jun 07, 2026 at 08:06:45AM +0100, Mohammed EL Kadiri wrote: > Add documentation to slab.rst explaining when and how to use > SLAB_NO_MERGE to protect security-critical slab caches from > cross-cache heap exploitation. Thanks for helping improve the documentation. I haven't looked at the patch, but have some comments in regards to the process. We prefer to send new iterations of patches as separate threads, with the exception being small fixes/cleanups. Also, I'd recommend waiting a bit longer between versions to let the maintainers comment since getting documentation is pretty particular.