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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	Ronald Monthero <debug.penguin32@gmail.com>,
	al@alarsen.net, gustavoars@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
	brauner@kernel.org, jack@suse.cz, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qnx4: fix to avoid panic due to buffer overflow
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:19:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250223001913.GQ1977892@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGudoHHB6CsVntmBTgXd_nP727eGg6xr_cPe2=p6FyAN=rTvzw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 01:12:47PM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote:

> General tune is not holding the codebase hostage to obsolete (and
> probably not at all operational) components. If in doubt, prune it.

What exactly is being held hostage, though?  Do we have an API change
that gets blocked just by the old filesystems and if so, which one
it is?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-02-23  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-12  9:53 [PATCH] qnx4: fix to avoid panic due to buffer overflow Ronald Monthero
2023-11-12 16:16 ` Anders Larsen
2023-11-13  9:25   ` Ronald Monthero
2023-11-13 15:40     ` Anders Larsen
2023-11-14 14:38       ` Ronald Monthero
2023-11-16 14:29 ` Kees Cook
2023-11-16 14:58   ` Kees Cook
2023-11-16 16:48     ` Anders Larsen
2023-11-16 18:26       ` Kees Cook
2023-11-18  8:38         ` Ronald Monthero
2025-02-21 14:51 ` Mateusz Guzik
2025-02-21 17:38   ` Kees Cook
2025-02-22 12:12     ` Mateusz Guzik
2025-02-22 15:17       ` Kees Cook
2025-02-22 16:36         ` Mateusz Guzik
2025-02-24 11:26           ` Christian Brauner
2025-02-23  0:19       ` Al Viro [this message]
2025-02-24 11:56         ` Mateusz Guzik

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