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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:37:12 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: Request for adding patches to stable tree
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 01:31:11PM +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 05:45:11PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 03:30:05PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > > I've seen reports for crashes under Xen on EFI machines with dom0
> > > running kernel 4.12. Reason seem to be missing upstream patches
> > > 6c64447ec58b0bac612732303f7ab04562124587 ("x86/xen/efi: Initialize only
> > > the EFI struct members used by Xen") and
> > > 457ea3f7e97881f937136ce0ba1f29f82b9abdb0 ("efi: Process the MEMATTR
> > > table only if EFI_MEMMAP is enabled")
> > >
> > > Please consider adding those patches to (at least) the stable 4.12 tree.
> >
> > Both of these are already queued up.  Usually if they are marked with a
> > "stable@" tag on the patch, I will pick it up automatically.
> 
> I am not sure what do you mean by ""stable@" tag on the patch". Could you clarify?

Please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html

Sometimes I wonder why we even write documentation...