From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:54492 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728174AbeIJSdN (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:33:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 15:38:54 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: wang.yi59@zte.com.cn, jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: WTF: patch "[PATCH] x86/kvm/vmx: Fix coding style in vmx_setup_l1d_flush()" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.18-stable tree? Message-ID: <20180910133854.GD8309@kroah.com> References: <15358370061672@kroah.com> <80b4afcd-e110-11eb-279f-e5b35f1a5c40@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <80b4afcd-e110-11eb-279f-e5b35f1a5c40@redhat.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 01:08:26PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 01/09/2018 23:23, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.18-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. > > Since the L1TF patches are still seeing a little churn, I submitted all > of them for stable, in order to avoid future conflicts. I don't understand. Was this patch needed for something else? Or is it already merged? Totally confused, greg k-h