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

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Message-ID: <836c6ec2-7582-8781-aebd-f20773341f77@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:16:00 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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 28/03/2017 11:13, Greg KH 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...

The reason I had no changelog text is that the bug is brown-paper-worthy
and I thought the patch was pretty self-commenting.  But I will fix
before pushing and also add Reported-by in addition to Suggested-by.

Paolo