Re: WTF: patch "[PATCH] fscrypto: don't use on-stack buffer for key derivation" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.8-stable tree?

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On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 01:39:02PM +0100, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.8-stable tree.
> 
> I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
> Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.
> 
> I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to 
> <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be
> applied.  Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be
> seen again.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 

Hi Greg,

Indeed, as far as I'm concerned you should drop these two patches.  They fix
problems with virtually-mapped stacks which were added in 4.9, so there's no
need to apply them to older kernels.  I think Cc stable was left on by accident
because the patches were originally going to wait until 4.10.

Thanks!

Eric
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