On Sun, 17 Jun 2018, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > livepatch: Initialize shadow variables safely by a custom callback > > to the 4.16-stable tree which can be found at: > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > The filename of the patch is: > livepatch-initialize-shadow-variables-safely-by-a-custom-callback.patch > and it can be found in the queue-4.16 subdirectory. > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. Hi, I think the patch really should not be added to the stable tree. It is not a bug fix. It is a new feature. The original API was more limited and this patch extends it. The same applies to patch "livepatch: Allow to call a custom callback when freeing shadow variables". Regards, Miroslav
