[PATCH 1/2] auditsc: audit_krule mask accesses need bounds checking

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hmm.  It seems that it didn't make it into Linus' tree.  Crap.
>
> I assume that if there is a maintainer who normally sends me stuff by
> git, when I see patches in emails they are just informational
> heads-ups about stuff that is being discussed or pending, and that
> I'll see it later in a pull request. So I just ignore them unless I
> have specific comments, since clearly the emailed patch is just
> informational and/or for comments/acks from others.
>
> The exception is unless it *VERY CLEARLY* says otherwise (as in
> "Linus, can you please take this directly due to xyz").
>
> Because why would somebody send me a patch series sometimes, and git
> trees at other times? That would just be stupid.

In this particular case, it's my patch, and I've never sent you a pull
request.  I sort of assumed that security at kernel.org magically caused
acknowledged fixes to end up in your tree.  I'm not sure what I'm
supposed to do here.

Maybe the confusion is because Eric resent the patch?

--Andy