From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail12.wdc04.mandrillapp.com ([205.201.139.12]:56667 "EHLO mail12.wdc04.mandrillapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932381AbcBYRhQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:37:16 -0500 Received: from pmta05.wdc01.mailchimp.com (127.0.0.1) by mail12.wdc04.mandrillapp.com id hpstso1jvjg3 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:22:14 +0000 (envelope-from ) From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] make efivarfs files immutable by default (for stable) To: Matt Fleming Cc: , Ard Biesheuvel , Peter Jones , Matthew Garrett , joeyli Message-Id: <20160225172137.GA23694@kroah.com> References: <1456417906-21471-1-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> <20160225164158.GA22865@kroah.com> <20160225164912.GC2772@codeblueprint.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20160225164912.GC2772@codeblueprint.co.uk> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:22:14 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 04:49:12PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb, at 04:41:59PM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 04:31:43PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote: > > > Stable folks, > > > > > > This is a backport of the efivarfs anti-bricking changes [1] for > > > stable. Some fixing up was required because the series doesn't > > > include the ucs2 cleanups that are in Linus' tree since they're not > > > really stable material. > > > > What stable tree(s) do you want these applied to? > > Probably as far as back v3.10, if possible. That was when efivarfs > support was merged and had we known about this issue then, we would > have had this immutable feature from day one. > > > And if at all possible, I'd really prefer to take the original patches, > > additional things and all, for stable kernels, as 95%[1] of the time > > that we take "different" ones, there are bugs. > > OK, gotcha. > > > It also makes things easier for us to take additional changes later on > > for other commits in the same area. So can we just take the originals > > please? > > Sure, if that's what you'd prefer that's no problem. Would you like me > to send a v2 series containing all the patches? Yes, that would be great, or just a list of git commit ids if they all apply just fine without any changes needed. thanks, greg k-h