From: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.co.il>,
Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com>,
stable-kernel <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmu_notifier_unregister NULL Pointer deref and multiple ->release() callouts. [V2]
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 16:37:05 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130204223705.GS3438@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130204141854.b13973d2.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 02:18:54PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 07:03:06 -0600
> Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Cc: stable-kernel <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.[0-6].y 21a9273
> > Cc: stable-kernel <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.[0-6].y 7040030
> > Cc: stable-kernel <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Andrew, I have a question about the stable maintainer bits I hope you
> > could help me with. Will the syntax I used above get this into 3.0.y
> > through 3.7.y? 3.7.y does not need the other two commits, but all the
> > rest do. If not and you wouldn't mind fixing it up for me, I would
> > appreciate the help.
>
> um, I'd fix it up if I understood it, but I'm not sure that I do with
> sufficient reliability.
>
> If you want to send a message like this to Greg and to others who
> maintain earlier kernel versions then I suggest you just spell it all
> out in plain old English in the main changelog. That's not very useful
> information for people who are following mainline, but a couple
> paragraphs in a changelog won't kill anyone.
>
> So can you please send me those couple of paragraphs and I'll paste
> them in there headlined "-stable suggestions".
-stable suggestions:
The stable trees prior to 3.7.y need commits 21a9273 and 7040030
cherry-picked in that order prior to cherry-picking this commit.
The 3.7.y tree already has those two commits.
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2013-02-04 13:03 Robin Holt
2013-02-04 22:18 ` Andrew Morton
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