On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds(a)linux-foundation.org> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Paul Moore <pmoore(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds(a)linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> The whole reason for that inlined part, and the uninlined
>> __audit_signal_info() helper was that the code *used* to be able to
>> avoid a function call entirely. That reason is now gone.
>
> Agreed. Normally I would say let's just fix it in audit/next and I'll
> send it to you during the next merge window; however, since we're
> breaking the whole point of this inline in the -rcX stage, and the
> uninline'ing patch would be rather trivial, would you prefer I send it
> to you now for v4.11?
It's fine if it does into some "next" branch for 4.12, I don't think
there is any hurry as long as this gets fixed eventually.
But I'll take the obvious cleanup for 4.11 too if you end up having
other things coming my way.
Okay, sounds good. I'll work on it this week, assuming nothing blows
up in the process expect to see it later this week.
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paul moore
security @ redhat