Re: Patch "rtnl: fix the loop index update error in rtnl_dump_ifinfo()" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

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On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 10:27:51PM -0800, David Ahern wrote:
> On 12/7/16 10:21 PM, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     rtnl: fix the loop index update error in rtnl_dump_ifinfo()
> > 
> > to the 4.8-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:
> >      rtnl-fix-the-loop-index-update-error-in-rtnl_dump_ifinfo.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
> 
> please drop this patch for 4.8 and all other stable backports. It is a no-op patch.

If it is a no-op, why is it in Linus's tree now too?  Should it be
reverted there?

confused,

greg k-h
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