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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Ohhoon Kwon <ohoono.kwon@samsung.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 19/25] connector: send event on write to /proc/[pid]/comm
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 20:36:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YUKRju8/BayxKeC3@sashalap> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v932ar5q.fsf@disp2133>

On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 08:45:37AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> writes:
>
>> From: Ohhoon Kwon <ohoono.kwon@samsung.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit c2f273ebd89a79ed87ef1025753343e327b99ac9 ]
>>
>> While comm change event via prctl has been reported to proc connector by
>> 'commit f786ecba4158 ("connector: add comm change event report to proc
>> connector")', connector listeners were missing comm changes by explicit
>> writes on /proc/[pid]/comm.
>>
>> Let explicit writes on /proc/[pid]/comm report to proc connector.
>
>This is a potential userspace ABI breakage?  Why backport it?
>
>Especially if there is no one asking for the behavior change in
>userspace?

This sounds like a concern with the patch going upstream rather than
going to stable? stable has the same policy around ABI changes such as
upstream.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-16  0:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20210913223339.435347-1-sashal@kernel.org>
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 19/25] connector: send event on write to /proc/[pid]/comm Sasha Levin
2021-09-15 13:45   ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-09-16  0:36     ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2021-09-16 15:49       ` Eric W. Biederman

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