* Re: Patch "livepatch: Initialize shadow variables safely by a custom callback" has been added to the 4.16-stable tree
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@ 2018-06-19 7:56 ` Miroslav Benes
2018-06-20 18:50 ` Greg KH
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From: Miroslav Benes @ 2018-06-19 7:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: stable
Cc: alexander.levin, jkosina, jpoimboe, nstange, pmladek,
stable-commits, gregkh
On Sun, 17 Jun 2018, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
>
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>
> livepatch: Initialize shadow variables safely by a custom callback
>
> to the 4.16-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:
> livepatch-initialize-shadow-variables-safely-by-a-custom-callback.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-4.16 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.
Hi,
I think the patch really should not be added to the stable tree. It is not
a bug fix. It is a new feature. The original API was more limited and this
patch extends it.
The same applies to patch "livepatch: Allow to call a custom callback when
freeing shadow variables".
Regards,
Miroslav
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* Re: Patch "livepatch: Initialize shadow variables safely by a custom callback" has been added to the 4.16-stable tree
2018-06-19 7:56 ` Patch "livepatch: Initialize shadow variables safely by a custom callback" has been added to the 4.16-stable tree Miroslav Benes
@ 2018-06-20 18:50 ` Greg KH
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From: Greg KH @ 2018-06-20 18:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Miroslav Benes
Cc: stable, alexander.levin, jkosina, jpoimboe, nstange, pmladek,
stable-commits
On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 09:56:05AM +0200, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2018, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
>
> >
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >
> > livepatch: Initialize shadow variables safely by a custom callback
> >
> > to the 4.16-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:
> > livepatch-initialize-shadow-variables-safely-by-a-custom-callback.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-4.16 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.
>
> Hi,
>
> I think the patch really should not be added to the stable tree. It is not
> a bug fix. It is a new feature. The original API was more limited and this
> patch extends it.
>
> The same applies to patch "livepatch: Allow to call a custom callback when
> freeing shadow variables".
Now dropped, thanks for letting me know.
greg k-h
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