From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2DBC01AE003 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2024 16:12:29 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1728922350; cv=none; b=c/udhNxeyx11FxQw5++DGnTIvh81S2x6mYwSWJ7e9PQ/Ui+wYTsTV8XOWNYK8c5Jr6Y4TZO8vebZGCLb2iTSNTwXgJDNTwBBCGqOm3JHkGa45JoJu3u51LVSeT5fqqwEqNCyBnYNy1epLwZ1p8kMF/3S1h/wzhT8rm2w3xLU0ks= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1728922350; c=relaxed/simple; bh=OAUV6ISm7p7vDSvm5tc9L4GqRgcVOrGjRLuc34K4bOQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=NQbd7sX9lNgcQjcslz8DkCXCq+l1nySjNHhkC8mzneGHJzCfHsSZ/l6u82TbgZsVuQDqMVP+qZb+D8+JmY6lHEth5CMhLHTRcwyRx88dDN8FTL9GuSwjRHGuRPZxAIz/bQidzfJDmeqWbM4+JzR7LNww/6Hp1YUJ3judba5ujfI= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=aC9Gr4Eu; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="aC9Gr4Eu" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4E627C4CEC3; Mon, 14 Oct 2024 16:12:29 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1728922349; bh=OAUV6ISm7p7vDSvm5tc9L4GqRgcVOrGjRLuc34K4bOQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=aC9Gr4EunwdCeL3UHW4vptrip3g6211sG+aA4xVW/4nRd5v6mBZpXpTVif9GhqZBo tDLRpGJHRmRgtoC4A57It9ZXG44Dxmb4Nz5e6hJyRmDc6R9/mAIfg4MQMec0zDtQkf Z5Q+u97Umcp7UPXVsqnBkbFIS7szoR/PA7Ojot0A= Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 17:56:13 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Jeff Xu Cc: Andrew Morton , Pedro Falcato , stable@vger.kernel.org, Michael Ellerman , Oleg Nesterov , Kees Cook Subject: Re: backport mseal and mseal_test to 6.10 Message-ID: <2024101437-taco-confusion-379f@gregkh> References: <2024101439-scotch-ceremony-c2a8@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 08:27:29AM -0700, Jeff Xu wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 10:54 PM Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 10:17:48PM -0700, Jeff Xu wrote: > > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > How are you? > > > > > > What is the process to backport Pedro's recent mseal fixes to 6.10 ? > > > > Please read: > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html > > for how all of this works :) > > > > > Specifically those 5 commits: > > > > > > 67203f3f2a63d429272f0c80451e5fcc469fdb46 > > > selftests/mm: add mseal test for no-discard madvise > > > > > > 4d1b3416659be70a2251b494e85e25978de06519 > > > mm: move can_modify_vma to mm/vma.h > > > > > > 4a2dd02b09160ee43f96c759fafa7b56dfc33816 > > > mm/mprotect: replace can_modify_mm with can_modify_vma > > > > > > 23c57d1fa2b9530e38f7964b4e457fed5a7a0ae8 > > > mseal: replace can_modify_mm_madv with a vma variant > > > > > > f28bdd1b17ec187eaa34845814afaaff99832762 > > > selftests/mm: add more mseal traversal tests > > > > > > There will be merge conflicts, I can backport them to 5.10 and test > > > to help the backporting process. > > > > 5.10 or 6.10? > > > 6.10. > > > And why 6.10? If you look at the front page of kernel.org you will see > > that 6.10 is now end-of-life, so why does that kernel matter to you > > anymore? > > > OK, I didn't know that. Less work is nice :-) So, now that you don't care about 6.10.y, what about 6.11.y? Are any of these actually bugfixes that people need? thanks, greg k-h