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

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Date:   Tue, 08 Jan 2019 15:34:26 +0100
From:   Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.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

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> writes:

> 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.

This may actually be the case, you think "one of the the mighty Linux
overlords" but your fingers type "Greg" instread. Sorry for the
confusion :-)

-- 
Vitaly