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Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , David Ahern , Simon Horman , Julian Anastasov Subject: Re: Patch "netfilter: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array" has been added to the 6.6-stable tree Message-ID: <2024062407-convene-imperfect-6c22@gregkh> References: <20240622234538.197608-1-sashal@kernel.org> <20240624071005.tnijkj7b36bvztks@joelS2.panther.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20240624071005.tnijkj7b36bvztks@joelS2.panther.com> On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 09:10:05AM +0200, Joel Granados wrote: > On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 07:45:37PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > netfilter: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array > > > > to the 6.6-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: > > netfilter-remove-the-now-superfluous-sentinel-elemen.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let know about it. > > I don't understand why we are putting these in stable. IMO, they should > not go there and this is why: > > 1. This is not a fix. > The main motivation for doing these sentinel removals is to avoid > bloat in the boot and compiled image (read more in cover letters for > [1,2,3,4,5,6]) in future kernel versions. This makes no sense in > stable IMO. > > 2. There are lots of moving parts and no "bang for the buck" > If you are going to bring one of them, you need to bring all of them. > This means brining in the preparation [7], the intermediate > [1,2,3,4,5,6] and the final patch [8]. This is not only prone to > error, but there is no real reason to do that in stable. > > If I'm missing something, please let me know. This was needed for the patch following this in the series. I fixed that one up by hand and dropped this one now, thanks. greg k-h