From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Cc: jgross@suse.com, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
matt@codeblueprint.co.uk, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.12 26/84] x86/xen/efi: Initialize only the EFI struct members used by Xen
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:39:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170720083910.aygobq7t7g7laszt@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170719103747.GZ4448@olila.local.net-space.pl>
* Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> wrote:
> Hey Greg,
>
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:43:32AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 4.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> Why did you skip this patch for 4.11? IMO it should be applied there too.
The thing is, this patch should probaly not even be in v4.12, as it should only
make any difference if there's a separate _bug_ in the kernel.
This patch makes things more robust going forward, but I question that it needs to
be in -stable.
Thanks,
Ingo
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20170719092322.362625377@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-07-19 9:43 ` [PATCH 4.12 26/84] x86/xen/efi: Initialize only the EFI struct members used by Xen Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-07-19 10:37 ` Daniel Kiper
2017-07-19 11:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-07-19 11:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-07-19 11:57 ` Daniel Kiper
2017-07-19 11:28 ` Daniel Kiper
2017-07-20 8:39 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2017-07-20 9:16 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <20170720091639.GA1071-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2017-07-20 9:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-20 12:33 ` Daniel Kiper
[not found] ` <20170720123321.GK9468-fJNZiO034lp9pOct4yEdx/3oZC3j2Omk@public.gmane.org>
2017-07-21 6:32 ` Juergen Gross
2017-07-19 9:43 ` [PATCH 4.12 27/84] efi: Process the MEMATTR table only if EFI_MEMMAP is enabled Greg Kroah-Hartman
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