linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: cleanup the page tracking SRCU instance

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Message-ID: <20170328091316.GB13956@kroah.com>
Date:   Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:13:16 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        dvyukov@...gle.com, rkrcmar@...hat.com, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: cleanup the page tracking SRCU instance

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:14:54AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Suggested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Fixes: 0eb05bf290cfe8610d9680b49abef37febd1c38a
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>

A stable patch with no changelog text at all?  That's not ok, please
provide some information at the least to justify this patch for Linus's
tree, and especially for a reason to be backported to a stable kernel...

thanks,

greg k-h