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Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 03:10:06 +0000 From: "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@...izon.com> To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 086/104] arm64: kasan: avoid bad virt_to_pfn() On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 07:13:22PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: >Hi Greg, > >On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 10:52:04AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > >I'm a little confused as to why this is being backported, given it >wasn't Cc'd stable or marked as a fix. > >The lm_alias() helper was only introduced in v4.10, and I don't recall >seeing that backported. > >What's going on here? Mark, We are experimenting with using neural network to aid with patch selection for stable kernel trees. There are quite a few commits that were not marked for stable, but are stable material, and we're trying to get them into their appropriate kernel trees. -- Thanks, Sasha
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