On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 09:47:15AM +0530, Sumit Garg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please help ot backport commit: d54ce6158e35 ("kgdb: fix to kill
> breakpoints on initmem after boot") to stable kernels. Below are
> comments from kgdb/kdb maintainer in this thread [1]:
>
> "BTW this is not Cc:ed to stable and I do wonder if it crosses the
> threshold to be considered a fix rather than a feature. Normally I
> consider adding safety rails for kgdb to be a new feature but, in this
> case, the problem would easily ensnare an inexperienced developer who is
> doing nothing more than debugging their own driver (assuming they
> correctly marked their probe function as .init) so I think this weighs
> in favour of being a fix."
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/2/25/516
Now queued up to the 5.10 and 5.11 stable trees, thanks.
greg k-h
