linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] dmaengine: idxd: Error path fixes

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Message-ID: <5bfbb7f0-03ce-0ce9-db94-75b304138471@intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 2 Dec 2022 13:53:31 -0800
From:   Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To:     "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        "Jiang, Dave" <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        "vkoul@...nel.org" <vkoul@...nel.org>,
        "dmaengine@...r.kernel.org" <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] dmaengine: idxd: Error path fixes

Hi Fenghua,

On 12/2/2022 1:32 PM, Yu, Fenghua wrote:
> Hi, Reinette,
> 
>> It is not clear to me if these are appropriate for stable so I am not including the
>> stable team. Please let me know if you think otherwise and I can add the
>> necessary Cc. With the refactoring through the history of the driver I was not
>> able to identify a Fixes: candidate for all. Patch #3 does look to be a potentially
>> complicated backport.
> 
> It would be better to add Cc: stable because they cause series issues.

Thank you. Will do.

> 
> In patch 3, you may add Fixes: 403a2e236538. This is in 5.16. 5.17 and later support
> SVA. We don't need to backport to too early versions.

ok. Thank you very much.

Reinette