Re: Fwd: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/platform/UV: Fix critical UV MMR address error

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 10:57:56AM -0700, Mike Travis wrote:
> This was sent to stable@vger.kernel.org almost 2 weeks ago and I haven't
> heard anything back yet.  Is there any update on the status?  (sorry for the
> bad formatting, this is the only way I can forward the email.  I can only
> resend the original email before the commit email from Thomas.)

How did you send it?

Ugh, you bounced it?  No wonder I didn't do anything with it at all, it
looked exactly like a "this is being committed to the TIP tree" type
message.

How was I supposed to know what to do with it?

Please be more specific next time, read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

A simple "please commit git id XXXXX to the X.X tree" is all that is
needed.

Wait, in looking closer at this:

> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/platform/UV: Fix critical UV MMR address error
> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 11:25:04 -0700
> From: tip-bot for mike.travis@hpe.com <tipbot@zytor.com>
> Reply-To: andrew.banman@hpe.com, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
> mingo@kernel.org, russ.anderson@hpe.com, travis@sgi.com,
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mike.travis@hpe.com, dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com
> To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
> CC: dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com, mike.travis@hpe.com,
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com,
> tglx@linutronix.de, andrew.banman@hpe.com, russ.anderson@hpe.com,
> travis@sgi.com
> 
> Commit-ID:  bd47a85acd727e27b7283daff557865ad04c59f6

Ok, that commit showed up in 4.16:
	$ git describe --contains bd47a85acd727e27b7283daff557865ad04c59f6
	v4.16~2^2

But the commit this fixes:

> Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/bd47a85acd727e27b7283daff557865ad04c59f6
> Author:     mike.travis@hpe.com <mike.travis@hpe.com>
> AuthorDate: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:40:11 -0500
> Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> CommitDate: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:19:45 +0200
> 
> x86/platform/UV: Fix critical UV MMR address error
> 
> A critical error was found testing the fixed UV4 HUB in that an MMR address
> was found to be incorrect.  This causes the virtual address space for
> accessing the MMIOH1 region to be allocated with the incorrect size.
> 
> Fixes: 673aa20c55a1 ("x86/platform/UV: Update uv_mmrs.h to prepare for UV4A
> fixes")

Is in 4.16-rc1:
	$ git describe --contains 673aa20c55a1
	v4.16-rc1~174^2~9

And is not backported to any other stable tree that I see:
	$ fr 673aa20c55a1
	4.16
	$ alias fr
	alias fr='~/linux/scripts/fix_in_what_release'

So what exactly am I supposed to do with this commit?  What do you want
to see done with it?

totally confused,

greg k-h