From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <Stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.14] atm:idt77252: Fix a kernel address leakage in idt77252
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:14:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190417061416.GA18320@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABXRUiS5Z9MTB9s5wUiC52B19e1JtEu=r5s4yf2ujxx+3g76XQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 10:27:51PM +0800, Fuqian Huang wrote:
> uh, it seems that i misunderstood the manual.
> If i just submit a patch to fix a bug in 4.14 which not exists in
> upstream, need i add a commit-id line to the mail body?
You need to explain in great detail _why_ the commit is not needed
in Linus's tree for me to be able to accept the patch.
> It is ok that I remove the commitid line and resend the patch?
Yes please, and add lots of text to the changelog area explaining why
this is only needed in this one specific kernel tree.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-17 6:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-16 12:37 [PATCH 4.14] atm:idt77252: Fix a kernel address leakage in idt77252 Fuqian Huang
2019-04-16 12:46 ` Greg KH
2019-04-16 14:27 ` Fuqian Huang
2019-04-17 6:14 ` Greg KH [this message]
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2019-04-18 7:17 Fuqian Huang
2019-04-18 7:42 ` Greg KH
2019-04-16 12:31 Fuqian Huang
2019-04-16 7:11 Fuqian Huang
2019-04-16 8:57 ` Greg KH
2019-04-16 6:57 Fuqian Huang
2019-04-16 8:56 ` Greg KH
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