From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: stable-commits@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch "ppp: mppe: Revert "ppp: mppe: Add softdep to arc4"" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 22:43:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200525024316.GY33628@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200524171105.GA56504@google.com>
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 10:11:05AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
>On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 09:52:54AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>>
>> ppp: mppe: Revert "ppp: mppe: Add softdep to arc4"
>>
>> to the 4.4-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:
>> ppp-mppe-revert-ppp-mppe-add-softdep-to-arc4.patch
>> and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
>
>I already explained last time that this shouldn't be backported:
>https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20190905161642.GA5659@google.com/
>
>The commit message explains it too.
>
>Is there something I could have done last time around to properly prevent this
>from being backported, or do I have to continue to be ready to respond to these
>emails which can come at arbitrary times forever?
Appologies, I had to revert back to (older) backups for some of my data
and sadly forgot it can cause this type of issues. I'll drop the patch.
>> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
>> please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>
>Hard for "anyone else" to object to it when you didn't Cc any real mailing lists
>(stable-commits doesn't count) and just sent this to me. Lucky I saw this.
This is just the "added to the queue" mail, you would see another mail
when this release goes to -rc1. No reason for too much spam...
--
Thanks,
Sasha
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2020-05-24 17:11 ` Patch "ppp: mppe: Revert "ppp: mppe: Add softdep to arc4"" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree Eric Biggers
2020-05-25 2:43 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2020-05-26 19:09 ` Eric Biggers
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