On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 09:51:51AM +1300, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 11:32:41AM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 11:05:53AM +0100, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> > > >> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > >> > > >> > exec: Ensure mm->user_ns contains the execed files > >> > > >> > to the 4.4-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: > >> > exec-ensure-mm-user_ns-contains-the-execed-files.patch > >> > and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. > >> > > >> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > >> > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > >> > >> Oops, nope, this broke the build too, now dropped. > > > > And I've now fixed it, sorry for the noise... > > When I have several patches that have dependencies like this is there > something I can do to make backporting them easier? There wasn't a dependancy, only a simple .h file that needed to be included. But generally you can put the git commit ids that are needed to be also included in the changelog text: cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.1+ 01234567 abc001122 or just email stable@vger and let us know. thanks, 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