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Date:   Tue, 23 Feb 2021 05:49:58 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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        Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
        Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 03/29] vdpa_sim: store parsed MAC address in a buffer
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On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 08:54:15PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
> > 
> > commit cf1a3b35382c10ce315c32bd2b3d7789897fbe13 upstream.
> > 
> > As preparation for the next patches, we store the MAC address,
> > parsed during the vdpasim_create(), in a buffer that will be used
> > to fill 'config' together with other configurations.
> 
> I'm not sure why this series is in stable. It is not documented to fix
> anything bad. 

Please see https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210211162519.215418-1-sgarzare@redhat.com