Re: [stable 4.4 00/29] some stable-4.4 backport

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On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 11:41:49AM +0100, Jack Wang wrote:
>> From: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> I notice there are some stable bugfix missing on stable-4.4, so I did
>> backport from 4.9, most of them are simple cherry-pick, some need to
>> adjust context a bit, I did some regression tests/ltp/kvm-unit-tests,
>> looks fine, there are still some patches to port, not sure if worth the
>> effort.
>
> Nice, thanks for doing this!
>
> Some of these are not in 4.9.y, any specific reason why?  Should I take
> your backport for those commits as well?
I think so.
There are some KVM fixes
- patch1 meant to fix DF inside guest, included in 3.16 series also
- patch 27/28/29 fix kvm-unit-tests trigger-able kernel panic

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Thanks,
-- 
Jack



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