* Re: Patch "livepatch: Initialize shadow variables safely by a custom callback" has been added to the 4.16-stable tree [not found] <15292346244498@kroah.com> @ 2018-06-19 7:56 ` Miroslav Benes 2018-06-20 18:50 ` Greg KH 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* 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 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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