linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] ASoC: apple: mca: Annotate struct mca_data with __counted

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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 12:51:37 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc: Martin Povišer <povik+lin@...ebit.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
	asahi@...ts.linux.dev, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
	Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	llvm@...ts.linux.dev, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: apple: mca: Annotate struct mca_data with
 __counted_by

On Mon, Oct 09, 2023 at 08:43:44PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> Off the top of my head I'd say wait at least three weeks for this sort
> of patch before doing anything and then prefer to do a resend, that's
> should avoid most issues.  If you're going to just apply things yourself
> I'd suggest waiting for -rc6 or so before doing so (assuming the patches
> were initially sent reasonably early), that does seem like a reasonable
> backstop so things don't completely miss releases.

Okay, sounds good. Thanks for the clarification!

-- 
Kees Cook