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 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF9EDC433EF for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 05:15:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230262AbhKXFSp (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:18:45 -0500 Received: from out03.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.233]:43458 "EHLO out03.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229817AbhKXFSo (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:18:44 -0500 Received: from in02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.52]:40434) by out03.mta.xmission.com with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1mpkd2-00A5iA-Fp; Tue, 23 Nov 2021 22:15:32 -0700 Received: from ip68-227-160-95.om.om.cox.net ([68.227.160.95]:38626 helo=email.froward.int.ebiederm.org.xmission.com) by in02.mta.xmission.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1mpkd1-006GU0-Fr; Tue, 23 Nov 2021 22:15:32 -0700 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Kyle Huey Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, "Robert O'Callahan" , Kees Cook , Kyle Huey , Oliver Sang , Linus Torvalds , stable@vger.kernel.org References: <163758427225348@kroah.com> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 23:15:24 -0600 In-Reply-To: (Kyle Huey's message of "Tue, 23 Nov 2021 17:33:19 -0800") Message-ID: <87y25ef82b.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-XM-SPF: eid=1mpkd1-006GU0-Fr;;;mid=<87y25ef82b.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org>;;;hst=in02.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=68.227.160.95;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX18nAf+6lDe2dhK+QFkoXNEROgnvBZIziGQ= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 68.227.160.95 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] signal: Don't always set SA_IMMUTABLE for forced signals" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Sat, 08 Feb 2020 21:53:50 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in02.mta.xmission.com) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org Kyle Huey writes: > Since this is taken care of now, AFAICT, I do have one additional > question. I reported the regression to LKML a day or so before 5.15.3 > was cut. What should I have noticed to see that the regressing > changeset was going to 5.15 and where should I have said "hey please > don't ship this on 5.15 yet"? > > I'd like to know what to do next time :) > When patches are added to the stable tree they are posted for review. I was Cc'd on a couple of them because of this discussion. The list appear to be "". Feedback is requested to go to "". So I believe this conversation is enough to remove the unnecessary patches before they make it to a stable release. The boiler plate looks like: > Cc: > Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 19:11:53 +0100 (10 hours, 58 minutes, 56 seconds ago) > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > exit/syscall_user_dispatch: Send ordinary signals on failure > > to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > The filename of the patch is: > exit-syscall_user_dispatch-send-ordinary-signals-on-failure.patch > and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > please let know about it. I hope that helps. Eric