On Mon, 12 Jul 2021, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.13.2 release. > There are 800 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please > let me know. > > Responses should be made by Wed, 14 Jul 2021 06:02:46 +0000. > Anything received after that time might be too late. > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.13.2-rc1.gz > or in the git tree and branch at: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.13.y > and the diffstat can be found below. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > > ------------- > Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: > > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Linux 5.13.2-rc1 Hi Greg, Sorry to be making waves, but please, what's up with the 5.13.2-rc, 5.12.17-rc, 5.10.50-rc, 5.4.132-rc stable release candidates? Amongst the 2000+ patches posted today, there are a significant number of them Signed-off-by Andrew, Signed-off-by Linus, Signed-off-by Sasha: yet never Cc'ed to stable (nor even posted as AUTOSELs, I think). Am I out of date? I thought that had been agreed not to happen: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190808000533.7701-1-mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx/ is the thread I found when I looked for confirmation, but I believe the same has been agreed before and since too. Andrew goes to a lot of trouble to establish which Fixes from his tree ought to go to stable. Of course there will be exceptions which we later decide should go in after all; but it's worrying when there's a wholesale breach like this, and I think most of them should be dropped. To pick on just one of many examples (sorry Miaohe!), a patch that surprises me, but I've not had time to look into so far, and would not want accelerated into X stable releases, 385/800 > Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> > mm/shmem: fix shmem_swapin() race with swapoff Hugh
