On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 06:37:50PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 06:33:57PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 04:26:49PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 11:12:57PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >
> > vmcore: convert copy_oldmem_page() to take an iov_iter
> >
> > to the 5.18-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:
> > vmcore-convert-copy_oldmem_page-to-take-an-iov_iter.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-5.18 subdirectory.
> >
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>
> I don't understand why this patch was selected for backport? It doesn't
> seem to fit under any of the usual stable rules.
>From what I can tell, if you mention "fix" in the commit message, it will
be picked up by the stable team.
> > commit a4562abf36d082779ada087172a916cd1ec749c7
> > Author: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Fri Apr 29 14:37:59 2022 -0700
> >
> > vmcore: convert copy_oldmem_page() to take an iov_iter
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 5d8de293c224896a4da99763fce4f9794308caf4 ]
> >
> > Patch series "Convert vmcore to use an iov_iter", v5.
> >
> > For some reason several people have been sending bad patches to fix
^^^
I believe that's enough to get it picked.
No, this is not the case here.
Oh. That's super-annoying, because that wasn't part of my commit message.
Andrew has a bad habit of plucking text from the 0/n message and adding it
to the 1/n commit, even when it makes no sense to do so. This text was
to explain why I'm sending the patch series and why it should be merged.
It makes no sense to make it part of the patch commit message.
The patch was picked up as a dependency for af2debd58bd7 ("s390/crash:
make copy_oldmem_page() return number of bytes copied"), and not as a
fix on it's own.
--
Thanks,
Sasha
