Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/74] 4.4.5-stable review

Sedat Dilek
2016-03-13T10:22:42Z

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 4:45 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 05:15:13PM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 10:12:13AM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>> >> Hi Greg,
>> >>
>> >> I tested with my usual setup/config.
>> >>
>> >> Looks good so far.
>> >>
>> >> Missing some net-ppp-fixes / overlayfs-fixes / userfaultfd-fixes, but
>> >> I guess you will pick them up in a 6th run of Linux v4.4.y.
>> >
>> > I have no idea what these "fixes" are you speak of, my queue is empty,
>> > there are no known stable patches I haven't applied yet. What exactly
>> > are you referring to here?
>> >
>> > thansk,
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Here we go...
>>
>> [1] "userfaultfd: don't block on the last VM updates at exit time"
>>
>> [2] "ppp: release rtnl mutex when interface creation fails"
>>
>> ( I was involved in... Fixes: 58a89ecaca53 ("ppp: fix lockdep splat in
>> ppp_dev_uninit()" )
>>
>> [3] "ovl: fix working on distributed fs as lower layer"
>>
>> BTW, in [1] Linus forgot to add a "CC:stable", how is this handled
>> when a maintainer forgets this?
>
> Someone needs to tell me. I've grabbed it now, the networking one will
> come through David, and the ovl patch is already in my tree for this
> round of releases. I couldn't take it before as it wasn't in Linus's
> tree.
>
> thanks,
>

Thanks for the feedback!

- Sedat -