Re: [GIT PULL] brown paper bag fix for SIGPOLL si_codes

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Tue Sep 19 2017 - 19:13:18 EST


Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
>> When sorting out the si_code ambiguity fcntl I accidentally overshot and
>> included SIGPOLL as well. Ooops! This is my trivial fix for that.
>>
>> Vince Weaver caught this when it landed in your tree with his
>> perf_event_tests many of which started failing because the si_code changed.
>
> I've tested with this patch applied and can confirm all of my tests now
> pass again.

And in my tiredness and distractedness doing this on my honeymoon
I forgot to include:

Fixes: d08477aa975e ("fcntl: Don't use ambiguous SIG_POLL si_codes")

Not that there are any backport issues since all of this is new with
-rc1. But just in case someone needs the information for double
checking me.

Eric