Re: Patch "Revert "s390/ism: fix receive message buffer allocation"" has been added to the 6.8-stable tree

Heiko Carstens
2024-04-15T12:42:25Z

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 04:59:24AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>
> Revert "s390/ism: fix receive message buffer allocation"
>
> to the 6.8-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:
> revert-s390-ism-fix-receive-message-buffer-allocatio.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-6.8 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.
>
>
>
> commit 8568beeed3944bd4bf4c3683993a9df6ae53fbb7
> Author: Gerd Bayer <gbayer@linux.ibm.com>
> Date: Tue Apr 9 13:37:53 2024 +0200
>
> Revert "s390/ism: fix receive message buffer allocation"
>
> [ Upstream commit d51dc8dd6ab6f93a894ff8b38d3b8d02c98eb9fb ]
>
> This reverts commit 58effa3476536215530c9ec4910ffc981613b413.
> Review was not finished on this patch. So it's not ready for
> upstreaming.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Bayer <gbayer@linux.ibm.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240409113753.2181368-1-gbayer@linux.ibm.com
> Fixes: 58effa347653 ("s390/ism: fix receive message buffer allocation")
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

I'm not sure if it makes sense to add and revert a patch within a
single stable queue (the same applies to 6.6). It might make sense to
drop both patches.