From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC5A3C433EF for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:34:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1359686AbiFPIeR (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jun 2022 04:34:17 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:53474 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231138AbiFPIeP (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jun 2022 04:34:15 -0400 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [139.178.84.217]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 305595DA70 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 01:34:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C951F61D65 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:34:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C3586C34114; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:34:13 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1655368454; bh=ublYzMeBpkL2nDn9W49uM/lBkV7LItyXZeOAeOSTvnc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=EparsVpl12W8ZIRY6gWRAcOYfQHxqJmn0mijxiKXbQTdPQvBbbhzl2wZ2jSaBn5kZ cxYO93OcwABGS7AuSVarZ83HT+k2lkP+IN6v6noIaUiGVz+mvHimAgTBzMq3IyvvLo /L7AERIkxUEX+VOFm0vFC86DClOvQzm3+jzEor7Q= Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 10:34:11 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Hans =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=FCller?= , arve@android.com, christian@brauner.io, hridya@google.com, joel@joelfernandes.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, maco@android.com, surenb@google.com, tkjos@android.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: remove ashmem Message-ID: References: <3f8d25aa-17a6-e6aa-4b6d-d3388ef35201@gmail.com> <20220616063104.GA5494@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20220616063104.GA5494@lst.de> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 08:31:04AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 08:29:51AM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > That is a "Android 7-based" system? That's old, how are they supporting > > that anymore with the security stuff that has happened since then? > > > > Anyway, if this were to come back, I need a maintainer who agrees to > > maintain it and fix and support it. Are you able to do that? If so, I > > think it would probably be easier to fix up anbox to use memfd instead, > > is anyone doing that (I couldn't figure that out from the github > > issue...) > > I'm very much against this. ashmem is a mess and we should not maintain > it for some kind of retro computing group. I totally agree, and was hinting that if someone actually had the skill to maintain ashmem, they would know it is easier to just fix the userspace code instead :)