linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] thread fixes v5.7-rc5

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Date:   Thu, 14 May 2020 11:07:59 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] thread fixes v5.7-rc5

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 10:05 AM Christian Brauner
<christian.brauner@...ntu.com> wrote:
>
> This contains a single fix for all exported legacy fork helpers to block
> accidental access to clone3() features in the upper 32 bits of their
> respective flags arguments.

I've taken this pull, but I really think the minimal and more
straightforward fix would have been to just make do_fork(),
kernel_thread() and clone() change the flags field from "unsigned
long" to "unsigned int".

I don't see why that wouldn't have fixed things, and it would have
been simpler and more obvious, I think.

Doesn't matter, I guess.

                   Linus