9 Jun
2020
9 Jun
'20
11:54 a.m.
On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 01:20:25PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
On Tue 2020-06-09 09:46:08, Daniel Axtens wrote:
Hi Sasha,
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.
No, lots of people run KASAN on those kernels when they are testing their devices, this patch is fine.
thanks,
greg k-h