Re: [PATCH 4.12 26/84] x86/xen/efi: Initialize only the EFI struct members used by Xen

[Ingo Molnar <mingo-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

* Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh-hQyY1W1yCW8ekmWlsbkhG0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:39:10AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> 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.
> 
> Yeah, good point, I'm going to go drop it entirely from the 4.12-stable
> tree as it obviously isn't stable material, sorry for not catching that
> before.

I should have caught the tag as well when applying the upstream patch to begin 
with.

Thanks!

	Ingo