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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html