linux-kernel - Re: [STABLE] kernel oops which can be fixed by peterz's patches

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Message-ID: <20160216174212.GB10487@kroah.com>
Date:	Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:42:12 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [STABLE] kernel oops which can be fixed by peterz's patches

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 09:44:35AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 04:08:37PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 04:25:03PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 10:14:44AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > So the reason I didn't mark them for stable is that they were non
> > > > trivial, however they've been in for a while now and nothing broke, so I
> > > > suppose backporting them isn't a problem.
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > What do you think about the way to solve this oops problem? Could you just
> > > give your opinion of the way? Or ack or nack about this backporting?
> > 
> > Or would it be better to create a new simple patch with which we can solve
> > the oops problem, because your patch is too complicated to backport to
> > stable tree? What do you think about that?
> 
> I would prefer just backporting existing stuff, we know that works.
> 
> A separate patch for stable doesn't make sense to me; you get extra
> chances for fail and a divergent code-base.

I agree, I REALLY don't want to take patches that are not
identical-as-much-as-possible to what is in Linus's tree, because almost
every time we do, the patch is broken in some way.

thanks,

greg k-h