From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, bhe <bhe@redhat.com>,
Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, "Goyal,
Vivek" <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] proc/vmcore: fix clearing user buffer by properly using" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 11:39:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1b3077a2-a365-3742-5238-e85cd3af816d@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALu+AoRMcX9Xg97yBzHd1qYONNutoX9R+VksxpE0Hr6eUtXPGw@mail.gmail.com>
On 23.11.21 07:20, Dave Young wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 at 20:33, <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
> <mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>> wrote:
>
>
> The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
> If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> id to <stable@vger.kernel.org <mailto:stable@vger.kernel.org>>.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
> ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>
> From c1e63117711977cc4295b2ce73de29dd17066c82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com <mailto:david@redhat.com>>
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 16:43:58 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] proc/vmcore: fix clearing user buffer by properly using
> clear_user()
>
>
> I think this is a very corner case and a good-to-have fix in stable,
> but we can also leave it as is.
> I would like to leave this to David. David? Would you like to rebase
> or drop it?
I'll have a look how easy (and different) the backports for the stable
trees area. I assume they are easy, then I'll just do the backport.
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
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2021-11-22 12:27 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] proc/vmcore: fix clearing user buffer by properly using" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree gregkh
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2021-11-23 10:39 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2021-11-24 20:45 ` [PATCH for 5.10-stable] proc/vmcore: fix clearing user buffer by properly using clear_user() David Hildenbrand
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