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

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Message-ID: <Y0hSsrwXLy4qCgkl@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 13 Oct 2022 19:02:26 +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 Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 01:58:30PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> 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>

> > > 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?

Unless you're going to start backporting extra tests as well I'd drop
it.

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