Re: Patch "tracing: Fix possible NULL pointer dereferences" has been added to the 3.8-stable tree

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On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 01:43:25PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 10:31 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > > The strange thing is I can't find the "FAILED: patch ..." email.
> > 
> > I don't send those out, if it applies to the most recent stable kernel
> > version, otherwise people would be flooded with them, and almost all of
> > them would be pointless.
> > 
> 
> My method has been to tag the stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with how far back
> it goes. For example:
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx #3.6+
> 
> 
> But if I leave off the tag, it means that the bug was there from day
> one, and goes back to all stable releases. I could put in a #2.6.32 tag
> or something.
> 
> Do you send out a FAILED message if the commit was tagged for a earlier
> release and doesn't apply?

Yes, I try to do so.

greg k-h
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