From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:36068 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933379AbdADVWz (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2017 16:22:55 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 22:12:30 +0100 From: Greg KH To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: jann@thejh.net, stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch "exec: Ensure mm->user_ns contains the execed files" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree Message-ID: <20170104211230.GA24180@kroah.com> References: <1483524353105141@kroah.com> <20170104103241.GA12586@kroah.com> <20170104105800.GA2875@kroah.com> <87eg0i1rbs.fsf@xmission.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87eg0i1rbs.fsf@xmission.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 09:51:51AM +1300, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Greg KH writes: > > > On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 11:32:41AM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 11:05:53AM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > >> > > >> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > >> > > >> > exec: Ensure mm->user_ns contains the execed files > >> > > >> > to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: > >> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > >> > > >> > The filename of the patch is: > >> > exec-ensure-mm-user_ns-contains-the-execed-files.patch > >> > and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. > >> > > >> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > >> > please let know about it. > >> > >> Oops, nope, this broke the build too, now dropped. > > > > And I've now fixed it, sorry for the noise... > > When I have several patches that have dependencies like this is there > something I can do to make backporting them easier? There wasn't a dependancy, only a simple .h file that needed to be included. But generally you can put the git commit ids that are needed to be also included in the changelog text: cc: # 4.1+ 01234567 abc001122 or just email stable@vger and let us know. thanks, greg k-h