On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 02:41:48AM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:47:52PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

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On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 02:56:44AM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

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On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 03:54:16PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

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The firmware API has had some issues a while ago, some of this is
not well documented, and its still hard to grasp. This documents
some of these issues, adds SmPL grammar rules to enable us to hunt
for issues, and annotations to help us with our effort to finally
compartamentalize that pesky usermode helper.

Previously this was just one patch, the grammar rule to help
find request firmware API users on init or probe, this series
extends that effort with usermode helper grammar rules, and some
annotations and documentation on the firmware_class driver to
avoid further issues. Documenting the usermode helper and making
it clear why we cannot remove it is important for analysis for
the next series which adds the new flexible sysdata firmware API.

This series depends on the coccicheck series which enables
annotations on coccinelle patches to require a specific
version of coccinelle [0], as such coordination with Michal is
in order.

Michal is out until July 11, and upon further thought such coordination
is not need, the annotation is in place as comments and as such
merging this now won't have any negative effects other than the version
check. Also the patches in question for the coccicheck change are all
acked now and I expect them to be merged anyway.

Which tree should firmware changes go through ?

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This series is also further extended next with the new sydata
API, the full set of changes is available on my linux-next tree [1].

Perhaps now a good time to discuss -- if 0-day should enable the rule
scripts/coccinelle/api/request_firmware-usermode.cocci to be called on
every 0-day iteration, it runs rather fast and it should help police
against avoiding futher explicit users of the usermode helper.

And if we are going to merge this anyone oppose enabling hunting
for further explicit users of the usermode helper using grammar through
0-day ?

*Poke*

*Re-poke*

Re-re-poke.

The scripts/coccicheck changes are now merged on Linus' tree, so these patches
have no other pending changes upstream.

Who's tree can this go through or is this too late now?
Andrew can these go through your tree?

  Luis