On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 04:32:17PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > I would assume such a patch would be backported to stable trees because > to me it sounds like the current semantic is simply broken and needs > fixing anyway but it shouldn't be much different from any other bugs. So the program would need then to check also for the -stable minor number where the patch was backported to in addition of any enterprise kernel backport versioning. > This is far from ideal from the "guarantee POV" of course. Agree it's far from ideal and lack of guarantee at least for CRIU means silent random memory corruption. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
