On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 08:38:57PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.18.12 release. > There are 61 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please > let me know. > > Responses should be made by Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:32:19 +0000. > Anything received after that time might be too late. > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.18.12-rc1.gz > or in the git tree and branch at: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.18.y > and the diffstat can be found below. With all the problems that this, and the 5.15.y and 5.10.y trees are having right now, I'm going to postpone this whole set of -rc releases and get to them next week, when all of the needed fixup patches have hit Linus's tree. Sorry for the delay all, and thank you to everyone for all of the testing. The problems are purely due to the fact that we were forced to do this type of work "in private" with very limited ability for testing by the normal larger kernel community like we rely on. We don't have fancy or huge private testing labs where we can do all of this work as we are an open source project, and we rely on open testing in public. So thanks all for your understanding with the delay. If you _really_ need protection from RETBLEED, you can grab these patches now, as maybe the corner cases we have hit so far don't affect you. Otherwise they should be ready next week, and I'll do a whole new round of -rc1 with them. greg k-h
