Re: [PATCH 04/20] FIEMAP: don't bother with access_ok()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed May 13 2020 - 15:38:03 EST


On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 08:02:07PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20200507145924.GA28854@xxxxxx/T/#t
> >
> > which is waiting to be picked up [1], and also has some chance for conflicts
> > due to changes next to the access_ok.
> >
> > [1] except for the first two patches, which Ted plans to send for 5.7
>
> I can drop this commit, of course, it's not a prereq for anything else in there.
> Or I could pick your series into never-rebased branch, but it would complicate
> the life wrt ext4 tree - up to you and Ted...

I really don't care - the first two really need to go in ASAP and
Ted promised to pick them up, but I've not seen them in linux-next
yet. The rest can go wherever once the first ones hit mainline.