On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 07:28:08AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote: > Based on your advice I was going to submit this series to stable > separately. This particular issue is not affecting anyone right now. The > only user to this function is sme_kernel_encrypt() which never updates > the PTE/PMD entries. I can update the commit message like this this to > clarify it. > > Enhance the sme_populate_pgd() to update page flags if the PMD/PTE entry > already exists. Agreed, except you still need the Fixes: tag to go with the patch. And that Fixes: tag should point to the patch which added the checks you're removing, I'd say. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) --