linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] Fix Kselftest's vfork() side effects

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Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 17:42:34 +0200
From: Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, 
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] Fix Kselftest's vfork() side effects

On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 07:12:51AM GMT, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2024, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Mon, May 06, 2024 at 06:55:08PM +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> > > Shuah, I think this should be in -next really soon to make sure
> > > everything works fine for the v6.9 release, which is not currently the
> > > case.  I cannot test against all kselftests though.  I would prefer to
> > > let you handle this, but I guess you're not able to do so and I'll push
> > > it on my branch without reply from you.  Even if I push it on my branch,
> > > please push it on yours too as soon as you see this and I'll remove it
> > > from mine.
> > 
> > Yes, please. Getting this into v6.9 is preferred,
> 
> Very strongly prefered for KVM selftests.  The negative impact on KVM isn't that
> the bugs cause failures, it's that they cause false passes, which is far worse
> (and why the bugs went unnoticed for most of the cycle).

FYI it's now in linux-next.