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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: wang.yi59@zte.com.cn, jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WTF: patch "[PATCH] x86/kvm/vmx: Fix coding style in vmx_setup_l1d_flush()" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.18-stable tree?
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 15:38:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180910133854.GD8309@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80b4afcd-e110-11eb-279f-e5b35f1a5c40@redhat.com>

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 01:08:26PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 01/09/2018 23:23, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.18-stable tree.
> > 
> > I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
> > Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.
> > 
> > I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to 
> > <stable@vger.kernel.org> and let me know why this patch should be
> > applied.  Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be
> > seen again.
> 
> Since the L1TF patches are still seeing a little churn, I submitted all
> of them for stable, in order to avoid future conflicts.

I don't understand.  Was this patch needed for something else?  Or is it
already merged?

Totally confused,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-10 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-01 21:23 WTF: patch "[PATCH] x86/kvm/vmx: Fix coding style in vmx_setup_l1d_flush()" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.18-stable tree? gregkh
2018-09-10 11:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-09-10 13:38   ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-09-10 15:39     ` Paolo Bonzini

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