On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 11:39 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 02:24:23PM -0700, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.18-stable tree.
> >
> > I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
> > Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.
>
> Oops, hit the wrong button, this should have been my "this did not
> apply" message, sorry about that.
>
> This doesn't apply because:
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> >
> > Fixes: 28a1f3ac1d0c ("kvm: x86: Set highest physical address bits in non-present/reserved SPTEs")
>
> that commit is not in a stable tree. It wasn't marked to be backpoted,
> should it?
When I sent my compile fix, I did not expect either one to need a backport.
Looking at 28a1f3ac1d0c more closely does make it sound like it should
be. Junaid Shahid wrote the patch originally, let's see what he thinks.
Arnd
