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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 10:37:39 -0700
From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Pranav Tyagi <pranav.tyagi03@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 11:50:31AM +0530, Pranav Tyagi wrote:
> I hope this explains the consequences of the race condition. If it is fine,
> I'll add it to changelog when I resubmit with the helper function.

Thanks for working on this! Are you still planning to send a v2 of this
patch? It'd be lovely to make progress on closing out all the items in
https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/119
:)

-Kees

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Kees Cook