Notices by Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org), page 2
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Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 16:13:59 JST Greg K-H
@vegard Yes, that would miss the normal "review all the stable commits" process. If you think there is a mainline-only commit that needs to have a CVE, please let us know at the cve@k.o address and we can assign it then.
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Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 18:08:41 JST Greg K-H
@matttbe @kernellogger Maybe, maybe not. Please see my old post here: http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2021/02/03/helping-out-with-lts-kernel-releases/ for what drives all of this (hint, people actually asking that they need it AND providing the help to make it possible.) -
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Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 23:27:39 JST Greg K-H
@xexaxo We do have those devs, they are just very overworked :( In conversation from social.kernel.org permalink -
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Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 20:49:03 JST Greg K-H
"I'm probably not alone in thinking that sometimes the compiler writers are doing their hardest to make life hard for people writing low level code." -- David Laight at: https://lore.kernel.org/r/344b4cf41a474377b3d
2cbf6302de703@AcuMS.aculab.com
It's a fun thread, recommended for anyone who deals with compilers and trying to get them to do what you would think would be a "easy" thing to do and the hacks around them to get them to do that (hint adding "+ 0" to an expression tricks the compiler into doing what you meant it to do is usually a sign that something is wrong somewhere...)In conversation from social.kernel.org permalink Attachments
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Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4) (kernellogger@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 00:57:45 JST Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)
Greg now officially deemed #Linux 6.12 as a longterm #kernel by adding it to https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html right after marking 4.19 as EOL; ohh, and he marked the #LinuxKernel 6.11 series as EOL today, too!
For details see the latest commits here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/kernel/website.git/log/
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Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 20:45:27 JST Greg K-H
The last 4.19.y kernel has been released:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2024120520-preorder-untracked-6e5b@gregkh/T/
Please move to a more modern kernel if you are somehow still running this one, which I strongly would not recommend doing.In conversation from social.kernel.org permalink Attachments
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Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 19:08:20 JST Greg K-H
@pro @xav Yup! In conversation from gnusocial.jp permalink -
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Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 00:49:47 JST Greg K-H
@xav it has only been a few hours, no idea how even a single day would work yet... In conversation from gnusocial.jp permalink -
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Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 22:58:31 JST Greg K-H
New hardware showed up today, turns out Linux works just fine on it. Here's the 6.12.1 kernel running in Wayland.
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Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 16:56:23 JST Greg K-H
@monsieuricon Oh great, of course now this means I need to write a hampster_fs kernel module and get it merged, yet another thing to add to my TODO list... In conversation from gnusocial.jp permalink -
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Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 02:27:50 JST Greg K-H
@gustavoars I'm not even going to try :) In conversation from social.kernel.org permalink -
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Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 02:03:36 JST Greg K-H
{sigh} Go home CodeQL, you are drunk…
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) Poorly documented function: fewer than 2% comments for a function of 129 lines.Code in question is at: https://github.com/gregkh/usbutils/blob/master/lsusb.c#L3835 if people are curious. It’s as if the tool hasn’t seen C code before…
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Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 23:59:27 JST Greg K-H
To followup up on this, @xexaxo sent a pull request to get rid of these "code in the meson temp files are security issues" false-warnings: https://github.com/gregkh/usbutils/pull/211
Many thanks for this, now to whittle down the other pointless `switch case is too big` and `FIXME is left in a comment` warnings that are left so that if anything "real" ever shows up, it will actually be noticed...In conversation from social.kernel.org permalink Attachments
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Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 19:47:44 JST Greg K-H
@xexaxo Yes, thank you! And thanks for the PR, I'll go merge that now and see how it goes. In conversation from social.kernel.org permalink -
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Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 17:47:04 JST Greg K-H
@tbodt Nope, didn't work. Or I got the yaml wrong, which is probably the real reason here... In conversation from social.kernel.org permalink -
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Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 17:38:31 JST Greg K-H
@tbodt Oh, nice, let me attempt that... In conversation from social.kernel.org permalink -
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Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 17:38:20 JST Greg K-H
@tbodt codeql really wants to build the code, as I'm guessing it is doing so with a compiler hack to get at the files needed to analyze. I guess we can turn that off, let me try that out... In conversation from social.kernel.org permalink -
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Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 16:49:19 JST Greg K-H
@tbodt @captainepoch Yes, enabling it is good. Stupid tests claiming problems that are not actually present at all are not good.
Drowns out any potential real issues.In conversation from social.kernel.org permalink -
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Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 16:48:05 JST Greg K-H
As it turns out that “code scanning” isn’t public, here’s the error message that github is putting up saying that meson temp build files are security problems:
build/meson-private/tmpzhj7u8eq/testfile.c:2 Test Poor global variable name 'i'. Prefer longer, descriptive names for globals (eg. kMyGlobalConstant, not foo). Rule ID cpp/short-global-name Description This rule finds global variables which have a name of length three characters or less. It is particularly important to use descriptive names for global variables. Use of a clear naming convention for global variables helps document their use, avoids pollution of the namespace and reduces the risk of shadowing with local variables.In conversation from social.kernel.org permalink -
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Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 16:45:54 JST Greg K-H
@captainepoch Ok, sorry about that. I'll respond to the original with the full error message... In conversation from social.kernel.org permalink