From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from kanga.kvack.org (kanga.kvack.org [205.233.56.17]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC1DC43334 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:34:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) id 9D81D6B0072; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 04:34:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 40) id 986C56B0073; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 04:34:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: int-list-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 63042) id 84EE26B0074; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 04:34:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: linux-mm@kvack.org Received: from relay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0012.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.12]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 728066B0072 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 04:34:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtpin09.hostedemail.com (a10.router.float.18 [10.200.18.1]) by unirelay02.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FAC43054A for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:34:16 +0000 (UTC) X-FDA: 79583436912.09.E2C6C18 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [139.178.84.217]) by imf10.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C19DBC0070 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:34:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BEC6561D5E; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:34:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C3586C34114; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:34:13 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1655368454; bh=ublYzMeBpkL2nDn9W49uM/lBkV7LItyXZeOAeOSTvnc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=EparsVpl12W8ZIRY6gWRAcOYfQHxqJmn0mijxiKXbQTdPQvBbbhzl2wZ2jSaBn5kZ cxYO93OcwABGS7AuSVarZ83HT+k2lkP+IN6v6noIaUiGVz+mvHimAgTBzMq3IyvvLo /L7AERIkxUEX+VOFm0vFC86DClOvQzm3+jzEor7Q= Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 10:34:11 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Hans =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=FCller?= , arve@android.com, christian@brauner.io, hridya@google.com, joel@joelfernandes.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, maco@android.com, surenb@google.com, tkjos@android.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: remove ashmem Message-ID: References: <3f8d25aa-17a6-e6aa-4b6d-d3388ef35201@gmail.com> <20220616063104.GA5494@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20220616063104.GA5494@lst.de> ARC-Seal: i=1; s=arc-20220608; d=hostedemail.com; t=1655368455; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=fmnzmS6YSjqnUmXUKzzKv408c7eokCPf4u9yoxFMRvu2GYz8RY1bBhzo9MY7BzxigM32oQ smCq7Z3alNQCluvtmA+AIO83yN7FybitcNcn0PUV+FAtijE7wqdQGXo8f4tK7NHPcfpidP wfGiBCJgoxebs1gBgFCNDMPDSoOeNAk= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; imf10.hostedemail.com; dkim=pass header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.s=korg header.b=EparsVpl; spf=pass (imf10.hostedemail.com: domain of gregkh@linuxfoundation.org designates 139.178.84.217 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=linuxfoundation.org ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=hostedemail.com; s=arc-20220608; t=1655368455; h=from:from:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references:dkim-signature; bh=GEplA6+5jrMHWUJN59K1AGYi9lCsaTFeXim8TZ7l068=; b=fytvfpVtOhq7J9X0MxgxZwQzCAuaIWodE/eBXys5Mrcx4jSO2NTA45NoBsIpbQ5r+wrCND zDifuKxWSTjXWgOq0u90v3W6PzRZ9WznhWeg68tsH1ZaO9YBoZVntJpNVOmcvjzofQDw1d ZJmKh/EMcb0aEy7lk2tidb4MuzCKrwU= X-Stat-Signature: ffugiommx9i7n9o9q7ysf7uay4ywdd6e X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: C19DBC0070 Authentication-Results: imf10.hostedemail.com; dkim=pass header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.s=korg header.b=EparsVpl; spf=pass (imf10.hostedemail.com: domain of gregkh@linuxfoundation.org designates 139.178.84.217 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=linuxfoundation.org X-Rspam-User: X-Rspamd-Server: rspam02 X-HE-Tag: 1655368455-711735 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 08:31:04AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 08:29:51AM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > That is a "Android 7-based" system? That's old, how are they supporting > > that anymore with the security stuff that has happened since then? > > > > Anyway, if this were to come back, I need a maintainer who agrees to > > maintain it and fix and support it. Are you able to do that? If so, I > > think it would probably be easier to fix up anbox to use memfd instead, > > is anyone doing that (I couldn't figure that out from the github > > issue...) > > I'm very much against this. ashmem is a mess and we should not maintain > it for some kind of retro computing group. I totally agree, and was hinting that if someone actually had the skill to maintain ashmem, they would know it is easier to just fix the userspace code instead :)