Re: Patch "x86/sev: Guard sev_evict_cache() with CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT" has been added to the 6.12-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 08:37:51AM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> On 9/22/25 00:52, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     x86/sev: Guard sev_evict_cache() with CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT
> > 
> > to the 6.12-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:
> >      x86-sev-guard-sev_evict_cache-with-config_amd_mem_encrypt.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-6.12 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.
> 
> Maybe I didn't use the tag correctly, but I put 6.16.x on the stable tag
> to indicate that the patch only applied to 6.16 and above. Before 6.16,
> there isn't a stub version of the function, so all off those releases
> are fine.
> 
> So this patch doesn't need to be part of the 6.12 stable tree.

Thanks for letting me know, I've now dropped this.  I was triggering off
of the "Fixes:" tag, which shows it was needed back to the 6.1.y tree.

thanks,

greg k-h