Re: WTF: patch "[PATCH] crypto: ccp - Add a module author" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.9-stable tree?

[Gary R Hook <gary.hook@amd.com>]

On 07/07/2017 03:29 AM, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.9-stable tree.
>
> I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
> Documentation/process/stable_kernel_rules.rst.

This should never have been submitted to stable. My apologies. Please delete
all of the versions of this patch.


> 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.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
> ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>
> From ac50b78b22cddb8a85b264b1f172c4239e826fd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Gary R Hook <gary.hook@amd.com>
> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:59:44 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] crypto: ccp - Add a module author
>
> CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.9.x+
>
> Signed-off-by: Gary R Hook <gary.hook@amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-dev.c b/drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-dev.c
> index 92d1c6959f08..b7504562715c 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-dev.c
> @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
>  #include "ccp-dev.h"
>
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>");
> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Gary R Hook <gary.hook@amd.com>");
>  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>  MODULE_VERSION("1.0.0");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("AMD Cryptographic Coprocessor driver");
>