Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86_64,signal: Fix SS handling for signals delivered to 64-bit programs

Cyrill Gorcunov
2015-03-20T14:47:29Z

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 03:07:38PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
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> Another downside (to me) is that this special case can help, but only
> "by accident".
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> For example, criu has ->ss = 0, but it was not initialized explicitly.
>
> But as I said, I won't argue.

OK, after talking to Pavel -- it's fine to require new criu version
for new kernels, thus lets leave kernel pure without this special
hack, moreover now we have a fix from Oleg merged into criu so we
should be safe. Thanks a lot for all comments!