Re: [PATCH v6 1/9] kernel: Support TIF_SYSCALL_INTERCEPT flag

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, Sep 23 2020 at 13:49, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 04:18:26PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
>> Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Yes, we can, and I'm happy to follow up with that as part of my TIF
>> clean up work, but can we not block the current patchset to be merged
>> waiting for that, as this already grew a lot from the original feature
>> submission?
>
> In that case, I'd say just add the new TIF flag. The consolidation can
> come later.

No. This is exactly the wrong order. Cleanup and consolidation have
precedence over features. I'm tired of 'we'll do that later' songs,
simply because in the very end I'm going to be the idiot who mops up the
resulting mess.

Thanks,

        tglx