From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:55688 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753987AbdGYANR (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:13:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 17:13:11 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Marek =?iso-8859-1?Q?Marczykowski-G=F3recki?= Cc: jgross@suse.com, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: WTF: patch "[PATCH] x86/xen: allow userspace access during hypercalls" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.12-stable tree? Message-ID: <20170725001311.GA14826@kroah.com> References: <1500939902223208@kroah.com> <20170725000955.GG1095@mail-itl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20170725000955.GG1095@mail-itl> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 02:09:55AM +0200, Marek Marczykowski-G�recki wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 04:45:02PM -0700, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.12-stable tree. > > > > I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at > > Documentation/process/stable_kernel_rules.rst. > > > > 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. > > This is a fix for -EFAULT on (any?) usage of /dev/xen/privcmd from > inside of Xen HVM guest with SMAP enabled. Details in this thread: > http://markmail.org/message/b6wxaipxbjyhiueg Why wasn't that information in the changelog itself? As it is it lookes like a "here's a new feature" type of patch... I'll go queue this up now, thanks. greg k-h