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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 12:32:57 +0530
From: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 005/219] kretprobes: Ensure probe location
 is at function entry
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Hi Sasha,

Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>=20
> [ Upstream commit 90ec5e89e393c76e19afc845d8f88a5dc8315919 ]
>=20

Sorry if this is obvious, but why was this patch picked up for -stable? =20
I don't see the upstream commit tagging -stable, so curious why this was=20
done.

I don't think this patch should be pushed to -stable since this is not=20
really a bug fix. There are also other dependencies for this change (see=20
commit a64e3f35a45f4a, for instance), including how userspace (perf)=20
builds out the retprobe argument. As such, please drop this from -stable=20
(for 3.18. 4.4 and 4.9).

Thanks,
Naveen

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