Re: Request to cherry-pick 20401d1058f3f841f35a594ac2fc1293710e55b9 to v5.10 and v5.4

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 01:59:11PM +0000, Varsha Teratipally wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Commit 20401d1058f3f841f35a594ac2fc1293710e55b9("ipc: replace costly
> bailout check in sysvipc_find_ipc()" fixes a high cve and optimizes the
> costly loop by adding a checkpoint, which I think might be a good
> candidate for the stable branches

What do you mean by "high cve"?

And that feels like it's an artificial benchmark fixup, what real
workload benefits from this change?

thanks,

greg k-h