From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WTF: patch "[PATCH] fscrypto: don't use on-stack buffer for key derivation" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.8-stable tree?
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 10:01:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161121180120.GA28464@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <147973194223521@kroah.com>
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 01:39:02PM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.8-stable tree.
>
> I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
> Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.
>
> I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to
> <stable@vger.kernel.org> and let me know why this patch should be
> applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be
> seen again.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
Hi Greg,
Indeed, as far as I'm concerned you should drop these two patches. They fix
problems with virtually-mapped stacks which were added in 4.9, so there's no
need to apply them to older kernels. I think Cc stable was left on by accident
because the patches were originally going to wait until 4.10.
Thanks!
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-21 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-21 12:39 WTF: patch "[PATCH] fscrypto: don't use on-stack buffer for key derivation" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.8-stable tree? gregkh
2016-11-21 18:01 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2016-11-21 18:15 ` Greg KH
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