linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kasan: update function name in comments

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Message-Id: <20220223200747.2487235367d74255d8e13ba9@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 23 Feb 2022 20:07:47 -0800
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc:     Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kasan: update function name in comments

On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 00:35:32 +0100 Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com> wrote:

> > I thought that Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org controlled whether the patch
> > is to be taken to the stable kernel and Fixes: was more of an
> > informational tag. At least that's what this seems to say:
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#reviewer-s-statement-of-oversight
> 
> These days patches that just have a Fixes tag (and no Cc: stable) will
> be auto-picked in many (most?) cases (by empirical observation).
> 
> I think there were also tree-specific variances of this policy, but am
> not sure anymore. What is the latest policy?

The -stable maintainers have been asked not to do that for MM patches -
to only take those which the developers (usually I) have explicitly tagged
for backporting.

I don't know how rigorously this is being followed.  Probably OK for
patches to mm/* but if it's drivers/base/node.c then heaven knows.