Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops
From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Jan 24 2023 - 18:10:05 EST
On January 24, 2023 11:38:05 AM PST, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 10:54:57AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 04:28:42PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
>> > 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
>> >
>>
>> I've sent out a backport to 5.15:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20230124185110.143857-1-ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#t
>
>Also 5.10, which wasn't too hard after doing 5.15:
>https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20230124193004.206841-1-ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#t
Oh excellent! Thank you very much!
-Kees
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Kees Cook