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

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On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 12:07:44PM +0100, Jinpu Wang wrote:
> 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

Ok, thanks, I'll dig through these and try to apply the others to the
4.9.y tree too...

greg k-h



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