From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: jann@thejh.net, stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch "exec: Ensure mm->user_ns contains the execed files" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 22:12:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170104211230.GA24180@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eg0i1rbs.fsf@xmission.com>
On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 09:51:51AM +1300, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 11:32:41AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 11:05:53AM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> >> >
> >> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >> >
> >> > exec: Ensure mm->user_ns contains the execed files
> >> >
> >> > to the 4.4-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:
> >> > exec-ensure-mm-user_ns-contains-the-execed-files.patch
> >> > and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
> >> >
> >> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> >> > please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
> >>
> >> Oops, nope, this broke the build too, now dropped.
> >
> > And I've now fixed it, sorry for the noise...
>
> When I have several patches that have dependencies like this is there
> something I can do to make backporting them easier?
There wasn't a dependancy, only a simple .h file that needed to be
included.
But generally you can put the git commit ids that are needed to be also
included in the changelog text:
cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.1+ 01234567 abc001122
or just email stable@vger and let us know.
thanks,
greg k-h
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2017-01-04 10:05 Patch "exec: Ensure mm->user_ns contains the execed files" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree gregkh
2017-01-04 10:32 ` Greg KH
2017-01-04 10:58 ` Greg KH
2017-01-04 20:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2017-01-04 21:12 ` Greg KH [this message]
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2017-01-04 10:57 gregkh
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