From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754914AbdC1JQv (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Mar 2017 05:16:51 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:44876 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754722AbdC1JQs (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Mar 2017 05:16:48 -0400 DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mx1.redhat.com E6AA7437F7E Authentication-Results: ext-mx05.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: ext-mx05.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pbonzini@redhat.com DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 mx1.redhat.com E6AA7437F7E Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: cleanup the page tracking SRCU instance To: Greg KH References: <1490688894-23596-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> <20170328091316.GB13956@kroah.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, dvyukov@google.com, rkrcmar@redhat.com, stable@vger.kernel.org From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <836c6ec2-7582-8781-aebd-f20773341f77@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:16:00 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170328091316.GB13956@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.29]); Tue, 28 Mar 2017 09:16:04 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 28/03/2017 11:13, Greg KH wrote: >> Suggested-by: Dmitry Vyukov >> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org >> Fixes: 0eb05bf290cfe8610d9680b49abef37febd1c38a >> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini > 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