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

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Tue Jan 24 2023 - 13:56:05 EST


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

- Eric