From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753109AbdJGDKv (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2017 23:10:51 -0400 Received: from omzsmtpe01.verizonbusiness.com ([199.249.25.210]:43438 "EHLO omzsmtpe01.verizonbusiness.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752278AbdJGDKs (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2017 23:10:48 -0400 From: "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" X-Host: endeavour.tdc.vzwcorp.com To: Mark Rutland CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Laura Abbott Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 086/104] arm64: kasan: avoid bad virt_to_pfn() Thread-Topic: [PATCH 4.9 086/104] arm64: kasan: avoid bad virt_to_pfn() Thread-Index: AQHTPxnGDMukfytzD0mfAhjwdQbjYQ== Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 03:10:06 +0000 Message-ID: <20171007031004.jq322f76fv3do4of@sasha-lappy> References: <20171006083840.743659740@linuxfoundation.org> <20171006083853.610785662@linuxfoundation.org> <20171006181322.GA19635@leverpostej> In-Reply-To: <20171006181322.GA19635@leverpostej> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: user-agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) x-ms-exchange-messagesentrepresentingtype: 1 x-ms-exchange-transport-fromentityheader: Hosted x-originating-ip: [10.144.60.250] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <97375A31C2BEE44387DCFDC7B53E54A0@vzwcorp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by nfs id v973AtKg018430 On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 07:13:22PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: >Hi Greg, > >On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 10:52:04AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > >I'm a little confused as to why this is being backported, given it >wasn't Cc'd stable or marked as a fix. > >The lm_alias() helper was only introduced in v4.10, and I don't recall >seeing that backported. > >What's going on here? Mark, We are experimenting with using neural network to aid with patch selection for stable kernel trees. There are quite a few commits that were not marked for stable, but are stable material, and we're trying to get them into their appropriate kernel trees. -- Thanks, Sasha