Re: [GIT PULL] thread fixes v5.7-rc5

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 10:05 AM Christian Brauner
<christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This contains a single fix for all exported legacy fork helpers to block
> accidental access to clone3() features in the upper 32 bits of their
> respective flags arguments.

I've taken this pull, but I really think the minimal and more
straightforward fix would have been to just make do_fork(),
kernel_thread() and clone() change the flags field from "unsigned
long" to "unsigned int".

I don't see why that wouldn't have fixed things, and it would have
been simpler and more obvious, I think.

Doesn't matter, I guess.

                   Linus