Re: [PATCH v26 00/28] riscv control-flow integrity for usermode

Paul Walmsley
2025-12-12T08:30:46Z

On Thu, 11 Dec 2025, Deepak Gupta via B4 Relay wrote:

> v26: CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI depends on CONFIG_MMU (dependency of shadow stack
> on MMU). Used b4 to pick tags, apparantly it messed up some tag picks. Fixing it

Deepak: I'm now (at least) the third person to tell you to stop resending
this entire series over and over again.

First, a modified version of the CFI v23 series was ALREADY SITTING IN
LINUX-NEXT. So there's no reason you should be resending the entire
series, UNLESS your intention for me is to drop the entire existing series
and wait for another merge window.

Second: when someone asks you questions about an individual patch, and you
want to answer those questions, it's NOT GOOD for you to resend the entire
28 series as the response! You are DDOSing a bunch of lists and E-mail
inboxes. Just answer the question in a single E-mail. If you want to
update a single patch, just send that one patch.

If you don't start paying attention to these rules then people are going
to start ignoring you -- at best! -- and it's going to give the entire
community a bad reputation.

Please acknowledge that you understand this,

- Paul