APPLIED[J]: [PATCH] UBUNTU: [Config] updateconfigs after AMX patchset

Andrea Righi andrea.righi at canonical.com
Thu Apr 7 09:53:52 UTC 2022


On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 10:39:22AM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1967750
> 
> Update configs after applying AMX patchset. Enforce
> STRICT_SIGALTSTACK_SIZE as off, because:
> 
> CONFIG_STRICT_SIGALTSTACK_SIZE is intend for enforcing strict checking
> of the sigaltstack size against the *real size of the FPU frame*,
> enabling it is risky since it may lead to the broken of legacy
> applications which already allocate a too small sigaltstack but can
> still work because they never get a signal delivered. (lin-x-wang)
> 
> Fixes: cf1383fe60 ("x86/signal: Implement sigaltstack size validation")
> Signed-off-by: Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov at canonical.com>

The target of this patch is obviously jammy (5.15). We can ignore this
for all the other kernels.

Apart than that, the patch makes sense, therefore: applied to
jammy/linux.

Thanks,
-Andrea



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