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

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Message-ID: <Y0hRxpVqigP4amOD@sashalap>
Date:   Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:58:30 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...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 04:04:42PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>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?

I can drop this one, or, are there maybe additional patches we do want
to take?

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha