linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] pipe: Fixes [ver #2]

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Date:   Mon, 9 Dec 2019 10:18:57 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Akemi Yagi <toracat@...epo.org>
Cc:     Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        DJ Delorie <dj@...hat.com>, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] pipe: Fixes [ver #2]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 9:57 AM Akemi Yagi <toracat@...epo.org> wrote:
>
> In addition to the Fedora make-4.2.1-4.fc27 (1) mentioned by Linus,
> RHEL 8 make-4.2.1-9.el8 (2) is affected. The patch applied to Fedora
> make (3) has been confirmed to fix the issue in RHEL's make.
>
> Those are the only real-world examples I know of. I have no idea how
> widespread this thing is...

Looks like opensuse and ubuntu are also on 4.2.1 according to

   https://software.opensuse.org/package/make
   https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/make

so apparently the bug is almost universal with the big three sharing
this buggy version.

               Linus