From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:49088 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750715AbbLIO5r (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2015 09:57:47 -0500 Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: x86: fix interrupt window handling in split IRQ chip" failed to apply to 4.3-stable tree To: Greg KH , Matt Gingell References: <144947387898208@kroah.com> <0D1D0F85-88AC-4873-BE55-F1516276FABB@google.com> <20151207233228.GA6344@kroah.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <56684164.7060408@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 15:57:40 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151207233228.GA6344@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/12/2015 00:32, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 03:27:20PM -0800, Matt Gingell wrote: >> These can wait for 4.4. > > Then why were they marked for stable? Even though the bugs were found while testing a new feature in 4.4, the bug exists in 4.3 as well. The patches don't apply because of the context changes caused by the new feature. I'll do the backport and post them to stable@vger.kernel.org. Paolo