Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] drm/xe/vm: move xa_alloc to prevent UAF" failed to apply to 6.11-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 09:29:49AM -0500, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 07:45:27PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > 
> > The patch below does not apply to the 6.11-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> > 
> > To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
> > 
> > git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.11.y
> > git checkout FETCH_HEAD
> > git cherry-pick -x 74231870cf4976f69e83aa24f48edb16619f652f
> 
> did this change for sending patches to stable?  Is this an alternative
> only for using --in-reply-to to a failed patch or can
> `git cherry-pick -x` be used as alternative to the
> "commit 74231870cf4976f69e83aa24f48edb16619f652f upstream." in the body?

I'll take either/any/some kind of hint as to what the commit id is.  If
you want to hand-write it, wonderful, if you want to use git to
automatically include it like here, even better, it's your choice.

greg k-h