Kyle Huey <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Since this is taken care of now, AFAICT, I do have one additional > question. I reported the regression to LKML a day or so before 5.15.3 > was cut. What should I have noticed to see that the regressing > changeset was going to 5.15 and where should I have said "hey please > don't ship this on 5.15 yet"? > > I'd like to know what to do next time :) > When patches are added to the stable tree they are posted for review. I was Cc'd on a couple of them because of this discussion. The list appear to be "<stable-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>". Feedback is requested to go to "<stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>". So I believe this conversation is enough to remove the unnecessary patches before they make it to a stable release. The boiler plate looks like: > Cc: <stable-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 19:11:53 +0100 (10 hours, 58 minutes, 56 seconds ago) > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > exit/syscall_user_dispatch: Send ordinary signals on failure > > to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > The filename of the patch is: > exit-syscall_user_dispatch-send-ordinary-signals-on-failure.patch > and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. I hope that helps. Eric
