Backport fix for BZ #18928?

Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT 2015


Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:

> On 17 Dec 2015 10:32, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho wrote:
>> Are there any restrictions to backport the patch for BZ #18928 [1] to stable
>> branches?
>> Right now, the only stable branch that received an update is 2.22.
>
> back ports are done by people interested in those branches.  no one
> seems to be interested in older than 2.22, so one wasn't pushed.

I'm interested and I plan to backport it to a few stable branches if we agree
that's the right thing to do.

But my question is more like:
Is it desirable to remove support for LD_POINTER_GUARD from stable branches?

-- 
Tulio Magno



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