From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A395C433DF for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2020 11:20:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E364207C3 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2020 11:20:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729029AbgFILU3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2020 07:20:29 -0400 Received: from jabberwock.ucw.cz ([46.255.230.98]:47166 "EHLO jabberwock.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726083AbgFILU1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2020 07:20:27 -0400 Received: by jabberwock.ucw.cz (Postfix, from userid 1017) id DF5761C0C0C; Tue, 9 Jun 2020 13:20:25 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 13:20:25 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Daniel Axtens Cc: Sasha Levin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , David Gow , Dmitry Vyukov , Daniel Micay , Andrey Ryabinin , Alexander Potapenko , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 72/72] string.h: fix incompatibility between FORTIFY_SOURCE and KASAN Message-ID: <20200609112025.GA2523@amd> References: <20200608232500.3369581-1-sashal@kernel.org> <20200608232500.3369581-72-sashal@kernel.org> <87ftb5t933.fsf@dja-thinkpad.axtens.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ftb5t933.fsf@dja-thinkpad.axtens.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue 2020-06-09 09:46:08, Daniel Axtens wrote: > Hi Sasha, >=20 > There's nothing inherently wrong with these patches being backported, > but they fix a bug that doesn't cause a crash and only affects debug > kernels compiled with KASAN and FORTIFY_SOURCE. Personally I wouldn't > change a core header file in a stable kernel for that. Perhaps I'm too > risk-averse. You are in agreement with existing documentation -- stable is only for serious bugs. Pavel =09 --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAl7fcHkACgkQMOfwapXb+vLcrQCgwqN9j6+yHdjtyMjKkGUCSYtm nkAAoMQ5LJ/YoXoLmXAi7ApbNSlbIQEC =olTB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g--