linux-kernel - Re: backport "nfsd: Fix general protection fault in release_lock

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Date:   Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:14:58 +0200
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Christian Theune <ct@...ingcircus.io>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        jlayton@...chiereds.net, bfields@...ldses.org
Subject: Re: backport "nfsd: Fix general protection fault in
 release_lock_stateid()" to 4.4

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 01:16:26PM +0200, Christian Theune wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I’d like to request inclusion of commit f46c445b79906a9da55c13e0a6f6b6a006b892fe into the 4.4 series. This happens to us regularly on a 4.4.59 machine and a review of the released later changes in 4.4 show that this hasn’t made it into 4.4 yet.
> 
> I’m guessing that using “Option 2” of the stable kernel rules is applicable here as the patch is already accepted in a newer kernel but even when it got the ‘CC: stable@...r.kernel.org” it didn’t trickle down to 4.4.

Oops, my bad for not catching this and getting it merged the first time.
Thanks for the hint, it's now queued up.

greg k-h