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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Requesting inclusion of 12dd7ecf2323 in linux-3.14.y
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:53:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150731165336.GA7446@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55BBA61D.7060302@free.fr>

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 06:45:17PM +0200, Mason wrote:
> Hello Greg and al,
> 
> Do you accept trivial patches for stable?

Not really, take a look at Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for the
full list.

> If so, could you apply 12dd7ecf2323 to linux-3.14.y?
> 
> Apprently, we've had this patch locally since 2012,
> but no one cared to push it upstream :-(
> 
> commit 12dd7ecf2323c572b1d302707eada4900848dced
> Author: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Date:   Thu May 1 14:15:02 2014 -0700
> 
>     lockd: avoid warning when CONFIG_SYSCTL undefined
>     
>     When building without CONFIG_SYSCTL, the compiler saw an unused
>     label. This moves the label into the #ifdef it is used under.
>     
>     fs/lockd/svc.c: In function ‘init_nlm’:
>     fs/lockd/svc.c:626:1: warning: label ‘err_sysctl’ defined but not used [-Wunused-label]

Everyone who really uses the kernel enables CONFIG_SYSCTL, so I don't
see this being something that is worth adding to the tree.

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2015-07-31 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-31 16:45 Mason
2015-07-31 16:53 ` Greg KH [this message]

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