linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.12 26/84] x86/xen/efi: Initialize only the EFI struct members used by Xen

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Message-ID: <20170720123321.GK9468@olila.local.net-space.pl>
Date:   Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:33:21 +0200
From:   Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@...cle.com>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, jgross@...e.com
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        andrew.cooper3@...rix.com, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        matt@...eblueprint.co.uk, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.12 26/84] x86/xen/efi: Initialize only the EFI struct
 members used by Xen

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 11:16:39AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:39:10AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@...cle.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hey Greg,
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:43:32AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > 4.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > >
> > > Why did you skip this patch for 4.11? IMO it should be applied there too.
> >
> > The thing is, this patch should probaly not even be in v4.12, as it should only
> > make any difference if there's a separate _bug_ in the kernel.
> >
> > This patch makes things more robust going forward, but I question that it needs to
> > be in -stable.
>
> Yeah, good point, I'm going to go drop it entirely from the 4.12-stable
> tree as it obviously isn't stable material, sorry for not catching that
> before.

Wait a minute. IIRC, Juergen told me last week that this patch fixes a bug
found/assigned by/to him. Juergen? If it is true then I would apply it to
stable. If I am wrong you can drop it.

Thanks,

Daniel