From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
dvyukov@google.com, rkrcmar@redhat.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: cleanup the page tracking SRCU instance
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:16:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <836c6ec2-7582-8781-aebd-f20773341f77@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170328091316.GB13956@kroah.com>
On 28/03/2017 11:13, Greg KH wrote:
>> Suggested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>> Fixes: 0eb05bf290cfe8610d9680b49abef37febd1c38a
>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> A stable patch with no changelog text at all? That's not ok, please
> provide some information at the least to justify this patch for Linus's
> tree, and especially for a reason to be backported to a stable kernel...
The reason I had no changelog text is that the bug is brown-paper-worthy
and I thought the patch was pretty self-commenting. But I will fix
before pushing and also add Reported-by in addition to Suggested-by.
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-28 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-28 8:14 Paolo Bonzini
2017-03-28 9:13 ` Greg KH
2017-03-28 9:16 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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