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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:34:38 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
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	Farrah Chen <farrah.chen@intel.com>, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86: Clear feature bits disabled at compile-time
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 12:13:25PM +0200, Maciej Wieczor-Retman wrote:
> Hello Greg,
> 
> I'd like to ask you for guidence on how to proceed with backporting this change
> to the 5.10 stable kernel and newer ones.

Don't worry about it UNTIL your patch lands in Linus's tree.  Then, if
it doesn't apply to a specific stable branch, just send us a working
backport.  Not too complex :)

thanks,

greg k-h