Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mm/madvise: replace ptrace attach requirement for process_madvise

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Mar 03 2021 - 06:02:26 EST


On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 15:53:39 -0800 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> A friendly reminder to please include this patch into mm tree.
> There seem to be no more questions or objections.
> The man page you requested is accepted here:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?id=a144f458bad476a3358e3a45023789cb7bb9f993
> stable is CC'ed and this patch should go into 5.10 and later kernels
> The patch has been:
> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If you want me to resend it, please let me know.

This patch was tough. I think it would be best to resend please, being
sure to cc everyone who commented. To give everyone another chance to
get their heads around it. If necessary, please update the changelog
to address any confusion/questions which have arisen thus far.

Thanks.