Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h: provide fatal_signal_pending

["David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>]

On 1/5/26 13:18, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2026 at 10:15:36PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>> Provide a dummy function fatal_signal_pending, because it will be used in
>> the following patch in the function mm_take_all_locks.
>>
>> This commit avoids a test failure when the following patch will be apllied.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> 
> No, please don't cc stable. Also don't cc stable without a Fixes tag.
> 
> This isn't backportable given you now need to backport to 5.10, 5.15, 6.1, 6.6,
> 6.12, 6.17.
> 
> I'm not sure how Andrew deals with a mix of Cc: stable and not-cc-stable patches
> in a series, think he generally doesn't like, but I'm not sure how exactly we
> are supposed to express order here otherwise. Andrew?

Can't we just have this hunk here as part of patch #2?

Backporting should be rather simple, just drop the hunk on kernels where 
it doesn't apply. Sure, a bit of manual work, but better than making our 
life more complicated here.

But maybe I am missing something.

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Cheers

David