From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: 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, mpe@ellerman.id.au,
shakeelb@google.com, shuah@kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.16 234/279] x86/pkeys/selftests: Adjust the self-test to fresh distros that export the pkeys ABI
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 13:36:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa4b973b-6037-eaef-3a63-09e8ca638527@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180618080618.495174114@linuxfoundation.org>
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?
Thanks, Vlastimil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-03 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2018-06-18 8:13 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-07-03 11:36 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2018-07-03 11:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-07-05 6:03 ` Michael Ellerman
2018-07-05 7:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-07-08 10:33 ` Michael Ellerman
2018-07-08 13:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-07-09 3:28 ` Michael Ellerman
2018-06-18 8:13 ` [PATCH 4.16 235/279] x86/mpx/selftests: Adjust the self-test to fresh distros that export the MPX ABI Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-18 8:13 ` [PATCH 4.16 237/279] x86/pkeys/selftests: Give better unexpected fault error messages Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-18 8:13 ` [PATCH 4.16 238/279] x86/pkeys/selftests: Stop using assert() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-18 8:13 ` [PATCH 4.16 239/279] x86/pkeys/selftests: Remove dead debugging code, fix dprint_in_signal Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-18 8:13 ` [PATCH 4.16 240/279] x86/pkeys/selftests: Avoid printf-in-signal deadlocks Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-18 8:13 ` [PATCH 4.16 241/279] x86/pkeys/selftests: Allow faults on unknown keys Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-18 8:13 ` [PATCH 4.16 242/279] x86/pkeys/selftests: Factor out "instruction page" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-18 8:13 ` [PATCH 4.16 243/279] x86/pkeys/selftests: Add PROT_EXEC test Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-18 8:13 ` [PATCH 4.16 244/279] x86/pkeys/selftests: Fix pkey exhaustion test off-by-one Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-18 8:13 ` [PATCH 4.16 245/279] x86/pkeys/selftests: Fix pointer math Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-18 8:13 ` [PATCH 4.16 246/279] x86/pkeys/selftests: Save off prot for allocations Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-18 8:13 ` [PATCH 4.16 247/279] x86/pkeys/selftests: Add a test for pkey 0 Greg Kroah-Hartman
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