From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:58748 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754836AbeFTTEg (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:04:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 03:50:49 +0900 From: Greg KH To: Miroslav Benes Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, alexander.levin@microsoft.com, jkosina@suse.cz, jpoimboe@redhat.com, nstange@suse.de, pmladek@suse.com, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch "livepatch: Initialize shadow variables safely by a custom callback" has been added to the 4.16-stable tree Message-ID: <20180620185049.GC32326@kroah.com> References: <15292346244498@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, 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 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