Re: [PATCH 1/2] auditsc: audit_krule mask accesses need bounds checking

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hmm.  It seems that it didn't make it into Linus' tree.  Crap.
>
> I assume that if there is a maintainer who normally sends me stuff by
> git, when I see patches in emails they are just informational
> heads-ups about stuff that is being discussed or pending, and that
> I'll see it later in a pull request. So I just ignore them unless I
> have specific comments, since clearly the emailed patch is just
> informational and/or for comments/acks from others.
>
> The exception is unless it *VERY CLEARLY* says otherwise (as in
> "Linus, can you please take this directly due to xyz").
>
> Because why would somebody send me a patch series sometimes, and git
> trees at other times? That would just be stupid.

In this particular case, it's my patch, and I've never sent you a pull
request.  I sort of assumed that security@xxxxxxxxxx magically caused
acknowledged fixes to end up in your tree.  I'm not sure what I'm
supposed to do here.

Maybe the confusion is because Eric resent the patch?

--Andy
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