Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 2021 20:36:30 -0400 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 19/25] connector: send event on write to /proc/[pid]/comm |
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 08:45:37AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> writes: > >> From: Ohhoon Kwon <ohoono.kwon@samsung.com> >> >> [ Upstream commit c2f273ebd89a79ed87ef1025753343e327b99ac9 ] >> >> While comm change event via prctl has been reported to proc connector by >> 'commit f786ecba4158 ("connector: add comm change event report to proc >> connector")', connector listeners were missing comm changes by explicit >> writes on /proc/[pid]/comm. >> >> Let explicit writes on /proc/[pid]/comm report to proc connector. > >This is a potential userspace ABI breakage? Why backport it? > >Especially if there is no one asking for the behavior change in >userspace?
This sounds like a concern with the patch going upstream rather than going to stable? stable has the same policy around ABI changes such as upstream.
-- Thanks, Sasha
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