On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 11:16:39AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:39:10AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Hey Greg, > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:43:32AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > 4.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > > > Why did you skip this patch for 4.11? IMO it should be applied there too. > > > > The thing is, this patch should probaly not even be in v4.12, as it should only > > make any difference if there's a separate _bug_ in the kernel. > > > > This patch makes things more robust going forward, but I question that it needs to > > be in -stable. > > Yeah, good point, I'm going to go drop it entirely from the 4.12-stable > tree as it obviously isn't stable material, sorry for not catching that > before. Wait a minute. IIRC, Juergen told me last week that this patch fixes a bug found/assigned by/to him. Juergen? If it is true then I would apply it to stable. If I am wrong you can drop it. Thanks, Daniel