linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hv_balloon: avoid touching uninitialized struct page during tail onlining

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Date:   Tue, 8 Jan 2019 12:47:55 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
Cc:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...uxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hv_balloon: avoid touching uninitialized struct page
 during tail onlining

On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 07:38:20PM +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> (I remember Greg disliked when people were tagging patches for stable@
> themselves, he prefered maintainers deciding if the particular commit
> deserves stable@ or not - but as you have a tree now we may as well have
> different rules :-)

You're thinking of Dave Miller.  So far as I know he's the only
maintainer who handles stable that way.  It's a lot of work to do the
things Dave does.  #understatement

regards,
dan carpenter