From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, January 9, 2023 11:11 AM > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 04:25:16PM +0000, Michael Kelley (LINUX) wrote: > > I'm ambivalent on the backport to stable. One might argue that older > > kernel versions are conceptually wrong in using different conditions for > > the decryption and re-encryption. But as you said, they aren't broken > > from a practical standpoint because sme_me_mask and > > CC_ATTR_MEM_ENCRYPT are equivalent prior to my patch set. However, > > the email thread with Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy, Tom Lendacky, > > and Dexuan Cui concluded that a Fixes: tag is appropriate. > > Right, just talked to Tom offlist. > > A Fixes tag triggers a lot of backporting activity and if it is not really > needed, then let's leave it out. > > If distros decide to pick up vTOM support, then they'll pick up the whole set > anyway. > > And if we decide we really need it backported for whatever reason, we will > simply send it into stable and the same backporting activity will be triggered > then. But then we'd at least have a concrete reason for it. > > Makes sense? > Yep, that matches my thinking. I've avoided marking something for stable unless it fixes something that is actually broken. Michael
