On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 12:19:18PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 11:38 AM Yangxi Xiang <xyangxi5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Which architectures do you mean? I don't see any architecture using > > > asm-generic/uaccess.h without setting GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER > > > before commit 98b861a30431 or the prior release. > > > > I am a user of LibOS, which uses this __strncpy_from_user. > > Ok, got it. This should be part of the changelog then when you send a > patch for stable kernels. You should also indicate that the code was > removed in mainline kernels and what the fix was there, as well as > which of the older kernels need the fix. But libos isn't part of the kernel tree, that's an out-of-tree change that we can't control here, right? How is that relevant for stable kernels and why can't it just be added to the libos patchset? thanks, greg k-h
