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Subject: Re: WTF: patch "[PATCH] x86/kvm/vmx: Fix coding style in
 vmx_setup_l1d_flush()" was seriously submitted to be applied to the
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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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On 01/09/2018 23:23, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.18-stable tree.
> 
> I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
> Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.
> 
> 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.

Since the L1TF patches are still seeing a little churn, I submitted all
of them for stable, in order to avoid future conflicts.

Paolo