[PATCH v2] arm64: signal: Ensure signal delivery failure is recoverable

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Thu Dec 12 09:26:47 PST 2024


On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 05:10:14PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 04:47:46PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > Fixes: eaf62ce1563b ("arm64/signal: Set up and restore the GCS context for signal handlers")

> > Presumably we also need a Fixes for whatever introduced the above copy.

> Hmm, it was like this from the beginning. If we are to do a cc stable to
> the oldest maintained LTS, I'd rather have a separate patch for
> copy_siginfo_to_user(), it doesn't make much sense to backport a GCS
> patch to early kernels.

Hrm, good point about it triggering backports.  I'm not sure it's worth
doing that TBH.
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