Re: [kernel-hardening] [RFC V2 1/6] lib: vsprintf: additional kernel pointer filtering options

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 09:29:08AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 15:26:50 +0200
> Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > I'm curious to why you are adding a "Signed-off-by"? That usually means
> > > that you either help author it, or it is going through your tree. I've
> > > never seen a "Signed-off-by" in passing. That's usually a "Acked-by" or
> > > "Reviewed-by".  
> > 
> > I did help author it :)
> > 
> > Hope that helps,
> 
> Ah! Than than makes a huge difference. I just didn't see anything in
> the change log that suggested that you did.

It's hard to show that, I know others on the cc: helped author it as
well, it's a complex patchset that has gone through many different
authors over many months.  Hopefully Tobin will be the one to finally
finish it up and get it merged.

thanks,

greg k-h