From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:52634 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751633AbcI1GGs (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2016 02:06:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 08:06:52 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Hugh Dickins Cc: kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, tonyb@cybernetics.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch "ipc/shm: fix crash if CONFIG_SHMEM is not set" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree Message-ID: <20160928060652.GB26329@kroah.com> References: <147498869720916@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 02:53:52PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2016, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > ipc/shm: fix crash if CONFIG_SHMEM is not set > > > > to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > > The filename of the patch is: > > ipc-shm-fix-crash-if-config_shmem-is-not-set.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let know about it. > > The [4.7.x] tag was mistakenly added to this > commit: the commit to be fixed went into v4.8-rc1, and there is no > reason to expect that it will ever be backported to 4.7.x. I don't > think this change to ramfs will do any actual harm in 4.7.x, but it > is rather odd to include it. Ok, now dropped, thanks for letting me know. greg k-h