Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 72/72] string.h: fix incompatibility between FORTIFY_SOURCE and KASAN

[Pavel Machek]

On Tue 2020-06-09 09:46:08, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> Hi Sasha,
> 
> There's nothing inherently wrong with these patches being backported,
> but they fix a bug that doesn't cause a crash and only affects debug
> kernels compiled with KASAN and FORTIFY_SOURCE. Personally I wouldn't
> change a core header file in a stable kernel for that. Perhaps I'm too
> risk-averse.

You are in agreement with existing documentation -- stable is only for
serious bugs.

								Pavel
								
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