Re: Patches for v4.14.y

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On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 02:33:22PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Please consider applying the following patches to v4.14.y.
> 
> The following patches were found to be missing in v4.14.y by the ChromeOS
> missing patch robot. The patches meet the following criteria.
> - The patch includes a Fixes: tag
> - The patch referenced in the Fixes: tag has been applied to v4.14.y
> - The patch has not been applied to v4.14.y
> 
> All patches have been applied to v4.14.y and chromeos-4.14. Resulting images
> have been build- and runtime-tested on real hardware with chromeos-4.14
> and with virtual hardware on kerneltests.org.
> 
> Upstream commit 76fc52bd07d3 ("arm64: ptrace: map SPSR_ELx<->PSR for compat tasks")
> 	Fixes: 7206dc93a58fb764 ("arm64: Expose Arm v8.4 features")
> 	in v4.14.y: 053cdffad3dd

Now queued up.

> Upstream commit 25dc2c80cfa3 ("arm64: compat: map SPSR_ELx<->PSR for signals")
> 	Fixes: 7206dc93a58fb764 ("arm64: Expose Arm v8.4 features")
> 	in v4.14.y: 053cdffad3dd

Now queued up.

> Upstream commit 93a64ee71d10 ("MAINTAINERS: Remove deleted file from futex file pattern")
> 	Fixes: 04e7712f4460 ("y2038: futex: Move compat implementation into futex.c")
> 	in v4.14.y: 0c08f1da992d
> 	Notes:
> 		Also applies to v4.19.y.
> 		This is an example for a patch which isn't really necessary
> 		(it doesn't fix a bug, only an entry in the the MAINTAINERS file),
> 		but automation won't be able to know that. Please let me know
> 		what to do with similar patches in the future.

Just drop it, there will always be these types of "fixes" that don't
make sense for stable trees.

> Upstream commit 074376ac0e1d ("ftrace/x86: Anotate text_mutex split between ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process() and ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare()")
> 	Fixes: 39611265edc1a ("ftrace/x86: Add a comment to why we take text_mutex in ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare()")
> 	Fixes: d5b844a2cf507 ("ftrace/x86: Remove possible deadlock between register_kprobe() and ftrace_run_update_code()")
> 	in v4.14.y: 0c0b54770189 (upstream d5b844a2cf507)
> 	Notes:
> 		Also applies to v4.19.y.

This only affects running sparse on the code, which for 4.14 I doubt
anyone is doing anymore.  But I'll take it as it might make things
easier for some people auditing 4.19 at the moment.

thanks,

greg k-h



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