Re: [git pull] coredump infoleak fix

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:17 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Might make sense to change the summary of that pull request to something
> like
>         make sure we don't forget to report the xstate components that happen
> to be in init state - both for coredump and for PTRACE_GETREGSET

Note that this has nothing to do with x86 per se.

It's more about ->getregs() being a horrid interface, and being easy
to get wrong in general. The fact that xstate is complex is just one
such trigger.

              Linus