Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> In commit b5325b2a270f ("coredump: hand a pidfd to the usermode coredump
> helper") a new core_pattern specifier, %F, was added to provide a pidfs
> to the usermode helper process referring to the crashed process.
>
> Update the documentation to include the new core_pattern specifier.
>
> Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/37125
> Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1024160/
> Signed-off-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Applied, thanks.
> FWIW, I was not sure if I should add a 'Fixes: b5325b2a270f
> ("coredump: hand a pidfd to the usermode coredump helper") to make
> sure that it get backported as well to the series where a backport of
> b5325b2a270f landed.
A Fixes tag is not sufficient to ensure that a patch is backported to
previous kernels - you must CC stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to be sure. In
this case, it's a documentation tweak for a 6.16 change, so I don't
think there is a lot of urgency here.
Thanks,
jon
