From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 193BB31AF1B; Mon, 2 Mar 2026 18:09:27 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1772474968; cv=none; b=VNcsnmT1nEFYQBeI+6t7KaiMxqjlYk2YBoGIB5gBHE8izS8XA/Ehp5bV+52X5+A+jlnwasfIQMFXfaD3hkyVPRCQezUP+n3DCcqZnqxx/3637VOZORIxcZMnWSXyzL4x/CIzVe0sDUsXL55poc9++uXecoAb6qYi9LRwpVgv0DU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1772474968; c=relaxed/simple; bh=zALYTjWqPzZUdXtvAVy46PlKCt/tZ7V8BFj6VXwC/YM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=OPHHLWUfCQX5+xCUoMXsTihxHt8rZBjpA2PQLqYjffGVJ72Pwl92jMwrsqucgR6wg6PVwvj/ZYY8Y5irxbez90PYT63kDq7OmzH6IDCH/wnQsQaQ4rj3IG+4ofsDQscFat1j/oQB0iqd/L7efq78XJ5I5YOAT1krgeqNtWOU6Yo= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=NxdItUqN; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="NxdItUqN" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 65D79C19423; Mon, 2 Mar 2026 18:09:27 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1772474967; bh=zALYTjWqPzZUdXtvAVy46PlKCt/tZ7V8BFj6VXwC/YM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=NxdItUqNi7uaw0u0bnJJwVLHPR9++r5vs3IxeRkQPyw7mVyZEafzUwkjnbgmKJ6/m F0AaJUNWNAfBfiQlJwNCImxlSGagrfjPcCud4miwHaRd5G1Um6WZF+ufiRFriztSlW t/EpTALEQnOAFnX93tsFxx3hdi+aZiPic5B1N8Gps2VBvtGeLqPAz7OJId2uA3EeKs OgMHo2644VKuNu79Aa5dbr5t/mzbYcJEkOLh/x6HKcAw3K41du3KaGvO1od+TBYZD+ TI2dxoU49XzbE+J5vbgV84LoISamY4J4P3Ek4bIlO/8XUqCqbgbWQXGAm6AMTP3Mon 3ArhYT7g7pPOg== Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 13:09:25 -0500 From: Sasha Levin To: Peter Schneider Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Harshit Mogalapalli , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, patches@lists.linux.dev, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux@roeck-us.net, shuah@kernel.org, patches@kernelci.org, lkft-triage@lists.linaro.org, pavel@nabladev.com, jonathanh@nvidia.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com, sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com, rwarsow@gmx.de, conor@kernel.org, hargar@microsoft.com, broonie@kernel.org, achill@achill.org, sr@sladewatkins.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/533] 6.1.165-rc2 review Message-ID: References: <20260302160943.2522184-1-sashal@kernel.org> <66461c13-1bb3-473c-b57f-adba9db4f756@googlemail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Mon, Mar 02, 2026 at 06:57:53PM +0100, Peter Schneider wrote: >Am 02.03.2026 um 18:48 schrieb Sasha Levin: >[...] > >>I'll drop it and push the -rc2 branch again for all affected kernels. >> > >Wouldn't it better to push a -rc3 branch then, so as to not create confusion? (I'm confused now... 🤔🙄) > >Or did you actually mean rc3? > >Also, the causing patch ("x86/kexec: add a sanity check on previous >kernel's ima kexec buffer") is in all others 6.x.y -rc2s from today, >so maybe Harshit should quickly check to which 6.x.y stable branches >this patch was meant to be backported/included? I just force pushed a new -rc2, and dropped the offending patch from all branches for now. This one will end up being a slightly bigger release, and we can revisit this commit and any others we had to drop for the next cycle. -- Thanks, Sasha