On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 7:49 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 10:33:41 +0100 Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Wednesday, November 23, 2016 11:25:49 AM CET Andrey Ryabinin wrote: >> >> >> >> We have implementation for this feature: >> >> "[PATCH] kasan: support use-after-scope detection" - http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<1479226045-145148-1-git-send-email-dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> and given how simple it is I'd suggest to just backport implementation. >> >> >> >> BTW, we also need "[PATCH] kasan: update kasan_global for gcc 7" - http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<1479219743-28682-1-git-send-email-dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> in v4.0+ stable. >> > >> > Ah, good. What's the plan for this patch? Would you still expect to >> > see that merged into v4.9, or get backported later once it's part of v4.10? >> > >> > Either way, you proabably want a Cc:stable tag on it to trigger the >> > backport to older kernels. >> >> +Andrew, what is the plan for the "[PATCH] kasan: update kasan_global >> for gcc 7" patch? >> Do I need to remail to include Cc:stable? > > I'm planning on merging it into 4.10-rc1. There's nothing in the > changelog to indicate that it is more urgent than that. > > Please send out a new changelog which can be used to justify a merge > into 4.9 and -stable. Remailed the patches with Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.0+ and with a note that without these patches KASAN is broken with gcc 7. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html