Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932400AbdGSLUH (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jul 2017 07:20:07 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:49124 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753332AbdGSLUE (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jul 2017 07:20:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:19:58 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Daniel Kiper Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Boris Ostrovsky , Ard Biesheuvel , Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, jgross@suse.com, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, matt@codeblueprint.co.uk, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.12 26/84] x86/xen/efi: Initialize only the EFI struct members used by Xen Message-ID: <20170719111958.GA13157@kroah.com> References: <20170719092322.362625377@linuxfoundation.org> <20170719092323.396710042@linuxfoundation.org> <20170719103747.GZ4448@olila.local.net-space.pl> <20170719111214.GA11941@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170719111214.GA11941@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.3 (2017-05-23) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 940 Lines: 26 On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 01:12:14PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:37:47PM +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote: > > Hey Greg, > > > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:43:32AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > 4.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > Why did you skip this patch for 4.11? IMO it should be applied there too. > > Are you sure it actually applied? (hint, it did not...) > > If you want it in 4.11, or older kernels, please provide a working > backport. And, in the future, if you want it to be applied to older kernels, or be notified if it can not be, please add a kernel version number in the stable marking: Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.0+ or use the Fixes: tag: Fixes: SHASHAHSA ("short description") which I pick up on and let you know if the patch does not actually apply back to the kernel that the fixes: tag was in. hope this helps, greg k-h