linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/24] 4.4.138-stable review

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Message-ID: <1529418520.2289.296.camel@codethink.co.uk>
Date:   Tue, 19 Jun 2018 15:28:40 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux@...ck-us.net, shuah@...nel.org, patches@...nelci.org,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/24] 4.4.138-stable review

On Thu, 2018-06-14 at 16:04 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.138 release.
> There are 24 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> let me know.
> 
> Responses should be made by Sat Jun 16 13:27:15 UTC 2018.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
> 
> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> 	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.138-rc1.gz
> or in the git tree and branch at:
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.4.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.
[...]

3.18 and 4.4 are still missing this important fix to early parameter
parsing:

commit 02afeaae9843733a39cd9b11053748b2d1dc5ae7
Author: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 22 14:52:38 2015 -0800

    x86/boot: Fix early command-line parsing when matching at end

Ben.

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