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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Pradeep Sawlani <sawlani@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	"Marc Zyngier" <marc.zyngier@arm.com>,
	"Christoffer Dall" <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>,
	"Wanpeng Li" <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in write_mmio
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 15:44:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180109144404.GA13228@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKvfMH+JNnfiTzxqz8-DFevkYkphwujUL0nyigGyjqpHUwxm0A@mail.gmail.com>


A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?

http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top

On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 06:28:29AM -0800, Pradeep Sawlani wrote:
> 4.4.110 stable tree.

What about 4.9 and 4.14?  You do not want to cause a regression if
someone moves from 4.4.y to 4.9.y, right?

> bwh was internal thing which got here. Do you want me to modify commit
> message and send it across?

It makes no sense in the context, the person who did the work should
sign-off on the patch, right?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-09 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-09 14:15 [PATCH] KVM: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in write_mmio sawlani
2018-01-09 14:25 ` Greg KH
     [not found]   ` <CAKvfMH+JNnfiTzxqz8-DFevkYkphwujUL0nyigGyjqpHUwxm0A@mail.gmail.com>
2018-01-09 14:44     ` Greg KH [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-01-09 15:24 sawlani
2018-01-10 12:14 ` Greg KH
2018-01-10 13:06   ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-10 15:04     ` Greg KH

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