On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 01:08:26PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 01/09/2018 23:23, 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. > > > > I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to > > <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be > > applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be > > seen again. > > Since the L1TF patches are still seeing a little churn, I submitted all > of them for stable, in order to avoid future conflicts. I don't understand. Was this patch needed for something else? Or is it already merged? Totally confused, greg k-h