From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Ujwal Kundur <ujwal.kundur@gmail.com>,
Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>,
kernel-team@android.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org,
"open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT - USERFAULTFD" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK"
<linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/mm: fix division-by-zero in uffd-unit-tests
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:39:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251114143909.14ecee31b88f179bc2858e30@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9d30836b-9ddb-4432-aa39-85e32c2ea645@kernel.org>
On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:11:40 +0100 "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org> wrote:
> >>> Oops, I keep getting confused about this Cc stable thing. Please let me
> >>> know if a v2 dropping the tag is needed.
> >>
> >> No need, Andrew should spot the objection and drop the tag :)
> >
> > I actually add cc:stable tags to selftests fixes!
> >
> > Because why not. Why leave people running known-to-be-buggy code when
> > our backporting processes are so well-functioning and lightweight?
> >
> > I'm not getting the objection?
>
> I thought we were so inconsistent on that that it ends up being a wasted
> effort to even try taking care about stability of selfests in stable trees.
Oh, I try to be vigilant about it.
hp2:/usr/src/mm> git log tools/testing/selftests/mm | grep stable@|wc
44 89 1462
I pass selftests patches through the same brain algorithm as
I do everything else, shrug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-14 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-13 3:46 [PATCH] selftests/mm: fix division-by-zero in uffd-unit-tests Carlos Llamas
2025-11-13 9:06 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-13 9:54 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-11-13 15:01 ` Carlos Llamas
2025-11-13 15:03 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-11-13 23:32 ` Andrew Morton
2025-11-14 8:11 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-14 22:39 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2025-11-17 17:31 ` Ujwal Kundur
2025-11-13 11:42 ` Mike Rapoport
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