linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.7 000/121] 5.7.13-rc2 review

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Date:   Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:23:06 +0100
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, patches@...nelci.org,
        Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org,
        linux- stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.7 000/121] 5.7.13-rc2 review

On 2020-08-04 19:33, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 1:21 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> 
>> So Linus's tree is also broken here.
> 
> No, there's 835d1c3a9879 ("arm64: Drop unnecessary include from
> asm/smp.h") upstream.

My bet is that Greg ended up with this patch backported to
5.7, but doesn't have 62a679cb2825 ("arm64: simplify ptrauth
initialization") as the latter isn't a fix.

I don't think any of these two patches are worth backporting,
to be honest.

         M.
-- 
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