Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] Fix Kselftest's vfork() side effects

From: Mickaël Salaün
Date: Tue May 07 2024 - 11:42:51 EST


On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 07:12:51AM GMT, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2024, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Mon, May 06, 2024 at 06:55:08PM +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> > > Shuah, I think this should be in -next really soon to make sure
> > > everything works fine for the v6.9 release, which is not currently the
> > > case. I cannot test against all kselftests though. I would prefer to
> > > let you handle this, but I guess you're not able to do so and I'll push
> > > it on my branch without reply from you. Even if I push it on my branch,
> > > please push it on yours too as soon as you see this and I'll remove it
> > > from mine.
> >
> > Yes, please. Getting this into v6.9 is preferred,
>
> Very strongly prefered for KVM selftests. The negative impact on KVM isn't that
> the bugs cause failures, it's that they cause false passes, which is far worse
> (and why the bugs went unnoticed for most of the cycle).

FYI it's now in linux-next.