On Friday, October 30th, 2026 at 13:56, Lucas Kanashiro <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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?
Sorry, no. No update. My job keeps distracting me :-|
...Juerg
>
> Cheers,
> Lucas Kanashiro.
