Re: [PATCH v2] arch: Reserve map_shadow_stack() syscall number for all architectures

Sohil Mehta
2023-10-03T17:18:47Z

On 10/3/2023 9:54 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2023, at 18:35, Sohil Mehta wrote:
>>
>> Gentle ping...
>>
>> Are there any additional comments? It applies cleanly on 6.6-rc4.
>>
>> Or does it seem ready to be merged? It has the following
>> acknowledgements until now:
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
>> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
>>
>
> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>

Thanks Arnd.

> If you like, I can pick this up for 6.7 through the asm-generic
> tree. If you think this should be part of 6.6, I would suggest
> to merge it through the tree that originally contained the
> syscall code.
>

Dave, Ingo, would you prefer to take this patch through 6.6 or defer it
until 6.7?

It's not necessarily a fix but it does help finish up the shstk syscall
added with 6.6. Also, it might help reduce some merge conflicts later if
newer syscalls are being added during the 6.7 window.

Sohil