On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:01:20AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote: > 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. Ok, thanks, both now dropped. greg k-h -- 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