Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.2 57/59] coredump: split pipe command whitespace before expanding template

[Sasha Levin]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 09:41:46AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 17:33 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>
> > From: Paul Wise <pabs3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 315c69261dd3fa12dbc830d4fa00d1fad98d3b03 ]
>
> The patch changes the behaviour of the interface between the Linux
> kernel and userspace core dump handlers. The previous behaviour was
> unlikely to be depended on by any core dump handler but it is still a
> behaviour change, so I think it would be best to keep it out of the
> stable branches and would prefer to have folks encounter the change as
> Linux distros etc roll out 5.3 and later into their dev releases.
>
> We discussed this on #kernelnewbies a while ago and gregkh agreed that
> it should stew a while longer before reaching any stable releases.
>
> In addition if it gets backported to stable releases, my patch for
> core(5) from man-pages will have to get more complicated :)

I'll just drop it and let Greg deal with it then :)

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Thanks,
Sasha