Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Jan 19 2023 - 19:28:50 EST


On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 03:19:21PM -0500, Seth Jenkins wrote:
> > Do you have a plan to backport this into upstream LTS kernels?
>
> As I understand, the answer is "hopefully yes" with the big
> presumption that all stakeholders are on board for the change. There
> is *definitely* a plan to *submit* backports to the stable trees, but
> ofc it will require some approvals.

I've asked for at least v6.1.x (it's a clean cherry-pick). Earlier
kernels will need some non-trivial backporting. Is there anyone that
would be interested in stepping up to do that?

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202301191532.AEEC765@keescook

-Kees

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Kees Cook