Re: Patch "exec: Ensure mm->user_ns contains the execed files" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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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
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