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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.16 234/279] x86/pkeys/selftests: Adjust the self-test to fresh distros that export the pkeys ABI
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To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dave.hansen@intel.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com, shakeelb@google.com, shuah@kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 01:36:43PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> On 06/18/2018 10:13 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> > 4.16-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>> 
>> So I was wondering, why backport such a considerable number of
>> *selftests* to stable, given the stable policy? Surely selftests don't
>> affect the kernel itself breaking for users?
>
> These came in as part of Sasha's "backport fixes" tool.  It can't hurt
> to add selftest fixes/updates to stable kernels, as for some people,
> they only run the selftests for the specific kernel they are building.
> While others run selftests for the latest kernel on older kernels, both
> of which are valid ways of testing.

I don't have a problem with these sort of patches being backported, but
it seems like Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.txt could use an
update?

I honestly don't know what the rules are anymore.

cheers