From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@suse.com>
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, stable@vger.kernel.org,
stable-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch "module: Issue warnings when tainting kernel" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:31:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180110103137.GA11061@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180110101149.kkhtz2xdbojhdzfr@fm.suse.cz>
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:11:49AM +0100, Libor Pechacek wrote:
> Greg,
>
> I appreciate the notifications about patch moves. They make my life easier.
> However, I don't understand how this change qualified for -stable. The issue
> does not look serious enough to me to pass the criteria described in
> Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst and I don't see which other patch
> may require this one in v4.4.111.
>
> What is the background for including this patch in -stable, please?
This patch fixes an issue, and was a "good enough" fix that at least one
distro has been shipping it in their kernel for a long time. So I
figured it would be good for everyone to benifit from the bugfix, not
just a tiny subset of the 4.4 kernel users :)
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-10 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-08 12:52 Patch "module: Issue warnings when tainting kernel" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree gregkh
2018-01-10 10:11 ` Libor Pechacek
2018-01-10 10:31 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-01-10 12:33 ` Libor Pechacek
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