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

From: Andy Shevchenko

Date: Wed Nov 11 2026 - 03:56:38 EST


On Tue, Nov 10, 2026 at 10:16:35PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On November 10, 2026 3:35:30 PM PST, Alejandro Colomar <alx+linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> 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).

Indeed, this is even better than rely on `b4 trailers` functionality.

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


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko