linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.0 15/46] kselftest/arm64: Allow larger buffers in get_signal

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Date:   Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:04:42 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, will@...nel.org,
        shuah@...nel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.0 15/46] kselftest/arm64: Allow larger buffers
 in get_signal_context()

On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 10:49:43AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 38150a6204c731a4846786682e500d132571fd82 ]
> 
> In order to allow testing of signal contexts that overflow the base signal
> frame allow callers to pass the buffer size for the user context into
> get_signal_context(). No functional change.

This doesn't obviously make sense independently, even by the relaxed
standards stable uses these days?

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