On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 07:39:50PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 27-08-19 19:06:18, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 04:10:16PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Sat 24-08-19 23:23:07, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> > > > Den 24-08-2019 kl. 22:57, skrev Andrew Morton:
> > > > > On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 19:15:23 +0000 Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > > > Fixes: 766a4c19d880 ("mm/memcontrol.c: keep local VM counters in sync with the hierarchical ones")
> > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> > > > > > > > Cc: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > > > Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > > > ---
> > > > > > > > mm/memcontrol.c | 8 +++-----
> > > > > > > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > <formletter>
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
> > > > > > > stable kernel tree. Please read:
> > > > > > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
> > > > > > > for how to do this properly.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Oh, I'm sorry, will read and follow next time. Thanks!
> > > > >
> > > > > 766a4c19d880 is not present in 5.2 so no -stable backport is needed, yes?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately it got added in 5.2.7, so backport is needed.
> > >
> > > yet another example of patch not marked for stable backported to the
> > > stable tree. yay...
> >
> > If you do not want autobot to pick up patches for specific
> > subsystems/files, just let us know and we will add them to the
> > blacklist.
>
> Done that on several occasions over last year and so. I always get "yep
> we are going to black list" and whoops and we are back there with
> patches going to stable like nothing happened. We've been through this
> discussion so many times I am tired of it and to be honest I simply do
> not care anymore.
>
> I will keep encouraging people to mark patches for stable but I do not
> give a wee bit about any reports for the stable tree. Nor do I care
> whether something made it in and we should be careful to mark another
> patch for stable as a fixup like this one.
Sasha, can you add these to the blacklist for autosel?
thanks,
greg k-h
