This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm64: Make ARM64_ERRATUM_1188873 depend on COMPAT to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: arm64-make-arm64_erratum_1188873-depend-on-compat.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.