Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Sep 06 2023 - 20:03:17 EST


On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 03:28:47PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Hi Kent,
>
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2023 at 11:25:55PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > here's the bcachefs pull request, for 6.6. Hopefully everything
> > outstanding from the previous PR thread has been resolved; the block
> > layer prereqs are in now via Jens's tree and the dcache helper has a
> > reviewed-by from Christain.
>
> I pulled this into mainline locally and did an LLVM build, which found
> an immediate issue. It appears the bcachefs codes uses zero length

It looks like this series hasn't been in -next at all? That seems like a
pretty important step.

Also, when I look at the PR, it seems to be a branch history going
back _years_. For this kind of a feature, I'd expect a short series of
"here's the code" in incremental additions (e.g. look at the x86 shstk
series), not the development history from it being out of tree -- this
could easily lead to ugly bisection problems, etc.

-Kees

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Kees Cook