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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kasan: turn off -fsanitize-address-use-after-scope for
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On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 10:33:41 +0100 Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, November 23, 2016 11:25:49 AM CET Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> >>
> >> We have implementation for this feature:
> >>         "[PATCH] kasan: support use-after-scope detection" - http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<1479226045-145148-1-git-send-email-dvyukov@google.com>
> >> and given how simple it is I'd suggest to just backport implementation.
> >>
> >> BTW, we also need "[PATCH] kasan: update kasan_global for gcc 7" - http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<1479219743-28682-1-git-send-email-dvyukov@google.com>
> >> in v4.0+ stable.
> >
> > Ah, good. What's the plan for this patch? Would you still expect to
> > see that merged into v4.9, or get backported later once it's part of v4.10?
> >
> > Either way, you proabably want a Cc:stable tag on it to trigger the
> > backport to older kernels.
> 
> +Andrew, what is the plan for the "[PATCH] kasan: update kasan_global
> for gcc 7" patch?
> Do I need to remail to include Cc:stable?

I'm planning on merging it into 4.10-rc1.  There's nothing in the
changelog to indicate that it is more urgent than that.

Please send out a new changelog which can be used to justify a merge
into 4.9 and -stable.