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The "rare write" mechanism

The "rare write" mechanism

Posted Jun 2, 2017 0:25 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: The "rare write" mechanism by PaXTeam
Parent article: The "rare write" mechanism

Dear PaX Team: The provenance of the code in question is clearly described in the article itself. It is, meanwhile, development work that is relevant to the kernel development community and worthy of coverage. No bullshit, no plagiarism. No stopping.


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The "rare write" mechanism

Posted Jun 2, 2017 1:08 UTC (Fri) by PaXTeam (guest, #24616) [Link] (2 responses)

Dear Jon,

you can't say you weren't warned. some specific examples of apparently wilfully misattributed authorship claims:

> Cook's implementation contains architecture-specific code that relies on CPU features on x86 and ARM that selectively
> enable and disable write access to areas of memory.

the x86 specific code is mine, not his.

> Cook noted that his code is inlined [...]

again, it's my code which he copied.

> Cook's newly introduced __wr_rare annotation[...]

it's my __read_only attribute.

> Cook gave a simple example of the usage of the single rare_write() call by converting a function in net/core/sock_diag.c from:

it's my code too.

> Cook's implementation of the rare write functions on x86 became the following:

it's all my code.

The "rare write" mechanism

Posted Jun 2, 2017 7:02 UTC (Fri) by itvirta (guest, #49997) [Link] (1 responses)

> the code is mine, not his.

I think there might be more appropriate forums for copyright infringement claims than comments on a news site.

The "rare write" mechanism

Posted Jun 2, 2017 13:02 UTC (Fri) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link]

No one is talking about copyright infringement (which is good, since that's not a valid claim). What's being discussed is attribution, and in particular attribution in the article (not attribution in the patches). I think the comments section of the article is a valid place to discuss that. I have no opinion on the merits.


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