Re: stackguard fix in Red Hat and Ubuntu kernels

[Eduardo Valentin <eduval () amazon com>]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 09:38:13PM +0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 02:18:33PM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yes, we at SUSE are seeing similar crashes. Thanks for the reproducer!
>
> The patches upstream in Linus's tree should resolve these crashes,
> correct?  If not, please let the kernel developers know, as we ended up

We could not repro the segv with the upstream version at our end. So, I think upstream is fine for this case.

> going with a different set of changes than the distros shipped, and are

Just to my understanding, do you know why we ended up having a version for linux-distro and another for upstream?

> still working on getting these backported to older stable kernels at the
> moment.

Thanks!!

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

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Eduardo Valentin