Re: Patch "iommu: Clean up open-coded ownership checks" has been added to the 6.6-stable tree

[Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>]

On 2024-12-10 12:17 pm, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 12:09:42PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> On 2024-12-09 11:27 am, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>>>
>>>       iommu: Clean up open-coded ownership checks
>>>
>>> to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at:
>>>       http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
>>>
>>> The filename of the patch is:
>>>        iommu-clean-up-open-coded-ownership-checks.patch
>>> and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
>>>
>>> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
>>> please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>>
>> Unless you're also going to backport the rest of the larger redesign which
>> makes this commit message true, I don't think this is appropriate.
> 
> It's needed because of:
> 
>>>       Stable-dep-of: 229e6ee43d2a ("iommu/arm-smmu: Defer probe of clients after smmu device bound")
> 
> That commit.
> 
> Is this still not relevant?

It's not a functional dependency though, just context, and in this case 
I think a manual resolution is a lot safer to reason about. Lemme just 
remind myself how to write up a backport patch correctly, and I'll send 
it out shortly...

Cheers,
Robin.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h