Hi, On Fri, Oct 2, 2026 at 5:46 AM Sylvain Beucler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Jürg, > > On 25/09/2026 19:00, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > On 24/09/2026 15:42, Jürg Häfliger wrote: > >> On Friday, September 18th, 2026 at 16:37, Sylvain Beucler > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Thanks for your work on crash :) > >>> > >>> The process is https://lts-team.pages.debian.net/wiki/Development.html > >>> but we normally only accept security fixes. > >>> > >>> How frequent and severe is the segfault you fixed? > >> > >> I have not looked at the segfault severity but it happens every time a > >> dump is opened. crash is completely useless in bookworm. > >> > >> Let me know if this is worth fixing and I'll proceed otherwise I'm > >> dropping it. > > I can reproduce with: > > apt install linux-image-6.1.0-53-amd64-dbg > > crash /usr/lib/debug/vmlinux-6.1.0-53-amd64 > > > > This sounds like something we should fix :) > > > > I can't personally review & sponsor this now but maybe somebody else > > from the team will, otherwise possibly in a week. In any case it's > > referenced in our work queue: > > https://salsa.debian.org/security-tracker-team/security-tracker/-/blob/ > > master/data/dla-needed.txt > > Your initial upload at mentors was overwritten by your second upload > with the unwanted cosmetic changes, so I had to check the latter. > > I see that you add a total of 11 patches, including segfaults fixes but > also support for maple trees and a Git-related change. This sounds a lot > for just fixing a segfault. Are all of those necessary for the fix? > > For this upload, I would recommend to create a 'debian/bookworm' branch > at https://salsa.debian.org/debian/crash/ , branched at 8.0.2-1, add the > fix there and run the Salsa CI pipeline on it. This should allow easier > review and automated testing. > Here's our doc for this: > https://lts-team.pages.debian.net/git-workflow-lts.html#setting-up-ci > > Please also check > https://lts-team.pages.debian.net/wiki/Development.html for the > specifics of a bookworm-lts upload, including targeting > 'bookworm-security'. Jürg, any update here? Cheers, Lucas Kanashiro.
