On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 09:05:12PM +0000, Alakesh Haloi wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 08:44:48PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 07:35:43PM +0000, Alakesh Haloi wrote:
> > > Hello Greg,
> > > Can you please consider including the following patch in the stable
> > > linux-4.14.y branch? This is to fix a broken dependency for config option
> > > CONFIG_CIFS_POSIX
> > >
> > > 04f67ed3d83a ("cifs: allow disabling insecure dialects in the config")
> >
> > I do not see that commit in Linus's tree, are you sure the sha1 is
> > correct?
> >
> Apologies for pasting a wrong sha1 for the commit. Following is the commit from
> linus's tree that needs to be included to fix the dependency:
>
> 7420451f6a10 ("cifs: allow disabling insecure dialects in the config")
>
> > > Following commit introduced a dependency for CONFIG_CIFS_POSIX on the config
> > > CONFIG_CIFS_ALLOW_INSECURE_LEGACY, but the above mentioned commit that had
> > > enable CONFIG_CIFS_POSIX in 4.14.94.
> > >
> > > ab9697222a1d ("cifs: In Kconfig CONFIG_CIFS_POSIX needs depends on legacy
> > > (insecure cifs)")
> >
> > Was the above patch incorrectly applied? Should it just be dropped
> > instead?
> This patch that is already there in 4.14.y looks correct but it does
> have missing dependency on the patch that is requested to be included.
> The other option is to drop this patch. But I would prefer to keep the
> patch and have the dependency resolved.
Ok, now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
