From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ed1-f69.google.com (mail-ed1-f69.google.com [209.85.208.69]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C08836B0006 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2018 07:36:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-ed1-f69.google.com with SMTP id c20-v6so825284eds.21 for ; Tue, 03 Jul 2018 04:36:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v6-v6si1124236edb.343.2018.07.03.04.36.45 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 03 Jul 2018 04:36:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.16 234/279] x86/pkeys/selftests: Adjust the self-test to fresh distros that export the pkeys ABI References: <20180618080608.851973560@linuxfoundation.org> <20180618080618.495174114@linuxfoundation.org> From: Vlastimil Babka Message-ID: Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 13:36:43 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180618080618.495174114@linuxfoundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Dave Hansen , Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , 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 , Sasha Levin 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