From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:57842 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752818AbcKUSPN (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2016 13:15:13 -0500 Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 19:15:23 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Eric Biggers 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: <20161121181523.GA20389@kroah.com> References: <147973194223521@kroah.com> <20161121180120.GA28464@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161121180120.GA28464@google.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:01:20AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote: > 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. Ok, thanks, both now dropped. greg k-h