On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 02:09:55AM +0200, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 04:45:02PM -0700, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.12-stable tree. > > > > I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at > > Documentation/process/stable_kernel_rules.rst. > > > > 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. > > This is a fix for -EFAULT on (any?) usage of /dev/xen/privcmd from > inside of Xen HVM guest with SMAP enabled. Details in this thread: > http://markmail.org/message/b6wxaipxbjyhiueg Why wasn't that information in the changelog itself? As it is it lookes like a "here's a new feature" type of patch... I'll go queue this up now, thanks. greg k-h