Re: [GIT PULL] vhost: fixes

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 03:19:55AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 03:28:47AM +0000, Justin He wrote:
> > Hi Michael
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, May 4, 2020 8:16 PM
> > > To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > > Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org; virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org;
> > > netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Justin He
> > > <Justin.He@arm.com>; ldigby@redhat.com; mst@redhat.com; n.b@live.com;
> > > stefanha@redhat.com
> > > Subject: [GIT PULL] vhost: fixes
> > >
> > > The following changes since commit
> > > 6a8b55ed4056ea5559ebe4f6a4b247f627870d4c:
> > >
> > >   Linux 5.7-rc3 (2020-04-26 13:51:02 -0700)
> > >
> > > are available in the Git repository at:
> > >
> > >   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost.git tags/for_linus
> > >
> > > for you to fetch changes up to
> > > 0b841030625cde5f784dd62aec72d6a766faae70:
> > >
> > >   vhost: vsock: kick send_pkt worker once device is started (2020-05-02
> > > 10:28:21 -0400)
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > virtio: fixes
> > >
> > > A couple of bug fixes.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Jia He (1):
> > >       vhost: vsock: kick send_pkt worker once device is started
> > 
> > Should this fix also be CC-ed to stable? Sorry I forgot to cc it to stable.
> > 
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Justin (Jia He)
> 
> 
> Go ahead, though recently just including Fixes seems to be enough.

You are getting lucky if you only apply a "Fixes:" tag, as that is much
lower down our list of things to look at.  We are forced to do that
because of subsystems and maintainers that do not use the cc: stable
tag, as has been documented for the patch 15+ years :(

So please be explicit if you know you want it merged to the stable
trees, otherwise it is not a guarantee at all if you only use "fixes:".

thanks,

greg k-h