On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:53:32AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2018-04-25 at 13:06 +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 01:44:20PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > > > "tpm: add retry logic" caused merge conflicts so I picked couple of > > > other fixes in order to get it apply cleanly. > > > > Are these only needed in 4.16.y? Nothing earlier? > > The retry one (tpm: add retry logic) could go back as far as you can, > but the bug it causes is rarely seen: mostly it's a failure of the > kernel trusted keys due to a tpm retry being interpreted as a fatal > error. The number of users we have for kernel trusted keys seems to be > pretty small ... > > I'd say if the backport works as is, go for it, but if we get a patch > apply failure, it's probably not worth trying to work out how to modify > the patch again until someone actually complains about the problem. They seem to all work for 4.14.y and 4.16.y, so now queued up, thanks. greg k-h
