On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 06:35:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 6:09 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > [ Upstream commit ffb324e6f874121f7dce5bdae5e05d02baae7269 ] > > So I think the commit is fine, and yes, it should be applied to > stable, but it's one of those "there were three different patches in > as many days to fix the problem, and this is the right one, but maybe > stable should hold off for a while to see that there aren't any > problem reports". > > I don't think there will be any problems from this, but while the > patch is tiny, it's conceptually quite a big change to something that > people haven't really touched for a long time. > > So use your own judgement, but it might be a good idea to wait a week > before backporting this to see if anything screams. I was going to wait a few weeks for this, and the other vt patches that were marked with cc: stable@ before queueing them up. thanks, greg k-h
