From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
"# 3.4.x" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: lib/string.c: implement stpcpy for 4.14, 4.9, and 4.4
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:54:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200929065448.GC2439787@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKwvOd=iRhjy_3Ebzj0=ptKCSfcdaKe71n9Hs-KSkJTzxmRD-w@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 01:17:15PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Dear stable kernel maintainers,
> Please consider applying the following patches to 4.14, 4.9, and 4.4
> implementing stpcpy, which is required when building w/ clang-12 and
> newer. These are manual backports of patches already accepted into
> stable earlier today, but for branches which they do not cherry pick
> back cleanly, due to us not backporting commit 458a3bf82df4
> ("lib/string: Add strscpy_pad() function") which landed in v5.2-rc1.
>
> Thanks to Nathan Chancellor for taking the time to backport these.
> The 4.9 and 4.4 patches look the same to me (other than the base).
Ah, I didn't realize you needed these to go back further, which is why I
didn't do it. Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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