Re: Patch "livepatch: Initialize shadow variables safely by a custom callback" has been added to the 4.16-stable tree

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On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 09:56:05AM +0200, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> 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".

Now dropped, thanks for letting me know.

greg k-h



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