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Message-ID: <20200930163839.GK6810@zn.tnic>
Date:   Wed, 30 Sep 2020 18:38:39 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Erwin Tsaur <erwin.tsaur@...el.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        0day robot <lkp@...el.com>,
        linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] Renovate memcpy_mcsafe with copy_mc_to_{user,
 kernel}

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 09:28:33AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Oh, it's pretty much 100%.

Oh good.

> I can't imagine what would make me skip an rc8 at this point.
> Everything looks good right now (but not rc7, we had a stupid bug),
> but I'd rather wait a week than fins another silly bug the day after
> release (like happened in rc7)..

Yeah, -rc8 is clearly the best idea, why *wouldn't* one do it?!

:-)))

> We're talking literal "biblical burning bushes telling me to do a
> release" kind of events to skip rc8 by now.

If you do, it probably'll look like this:

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 992d24467ca0..5e8819b99110 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 VERSION = 5
 PATCHLEVEL = 9
 SUBLEVEL = 0
-EXTRAVERSION = -rc7
-NAME = Kleptomaniac Octopus
+EXTRAVERSION =
+NAME = Biblical Burning Bushes
 
 # *DOCUMENTATION*
 # To see a list of typical targets execute "make help"

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette