Re: [PATCH v3] seq_buf: Mark a seq_buf overflowed when terminating it loses a byte

From: Kees Cook

Date: Wed Nov 11 2026 - 01:17:23 EST




On November 10, 2026 3:35:30 PM PST, Alejandro Colomar <alx+linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Hi Kees,
>
>> Date: 2026-11-10 14:07:24-0800
>> From: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 04, 2026 at 12:28:27PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>> > Please include:
>> >
>> > Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > (or perhaps a second Reported-by.)
>>
>> You were Cc'd. :)
>
>Yup; what I meant is please store my name in the patch body, since
>I want to be CCd if anyone looks at this patch in the future. :)

Ah! In that case, you might want to look at using lei to deliver arbitrary queries to your inbox, which doesn't require depending on inducing other people's email clients to send to you (which even that goes awry when get_maintainers isn't used or git history is ignored, etc).

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/lore-lei-part-1-getting-started


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Kees Cook