Re: patches sent up to 6.13-rc1 that shouldn't be backported

["Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 08:52:28AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 06:02:45AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > Hi Sasha,
> > 
> > I've been getting emails from your bots...
> > 
> > I sent two pulls to Linus for 6.13-rc1:
> > 
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4a39ac5b7d62679c07a3e3d12b0f6982377d8a7d
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=34e1a5d43c5deec563b94f3330b690dde9d1de53
> > 
> > In these, I'm not sure there's actually much valid stable material. I
> > didn't mark anything as Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, I don't think.
> > 
> > As such, can you make sure none of those get backported?
> > 
> > Alternatively, if you do have reason to want to pick some of these,
> > can you be clear with what and why, and actually carefully decide
> > which ones and which dependencies are required as such in a
> > non-automated way?
> 
> They say so directly in the commit, i.e.:
> 	Stable-dep-of: 6eda706a535c ("selftests: vDSO: fix the way vDSO functions are called for powerpc")

Wha? Sasha added that. It's not in the original commit.

Is that tag anywhere in Linus' tree?

> 
> in each one.  So this seem to be needed to fix up the powerpc stuff.
> 
> I'll drop them all if you feel these should not be applied.

Yes, thanks.

Jason