On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 07:45:59AM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 06:35:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 6:09 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > [ Upstream commit ffb324e6f874121f7dce5bdae5e05d02baae7269 ] > > > > So I think the commit is fine, and yes, it should be applied to > > stable, but it's one of those "there were three different patches in > > as many days to fix the problem, and this is the right one, but maybe > > stable should hold off for a while to see that there aren't any > > problem reports". > > > > I don't think there will be any problems from this, but while the > > patch is tiny, it's conceptually quite a big change to something that > > people haven't really touched for a long time. > > > > So use your own judgement, but it might be a good idea to wait a week > > before backporting this to see if anything screams. > > I was going to wait a few weeks for this, and the other vt patches that > were marked with cc: stable@ before queueing them up. I have now queued all of these up. greg k-h
