From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pg0-f41.google.com ([74.125.83.41]:36803 "EHLO mail-pg0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753986AbcKUSIg (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2016 13:08:36 -0500 Received: by mail-pg0-f41.google.com with SMTP id f188so132383158pgc.3 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2016 10:08:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 10:01:20 -0800 From: Eric Biggers 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? Message-ID: <20161121180120.GA28464@google.com> References: <147973194223521@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <147973194223521@kroah.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > 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