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Date:   Thu, 3 Oct 2019 09:50:06 +0200
From:   Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: Patch "perf ftrace: Use CAP_SYS_ADMIN instead of euid==0" has
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On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 01:15:54PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     perf ftrace: Use CAP_SYS_ADMIN instead of euid==0
> 
> to the 5.3-stable tree which can be found at:
>     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> 
> The filename of the patch is:
>      perf-ftrace-use-cap_sys_admin-instead-of-euid-0.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-5.3 subdirectory.
> 
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
> 
> 
> 
> commit 54a277c389061fc501624f51a13426d7b797f5f7
> Author: Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com>
> Date:   Wed Aug 7 10:44:17 2019 -0400
> 
>     perf ftrace: Use CAP_SYS_ADMIN instead of euid==0
>     
>     [ Upstream commit c766f3df635de14295e410c6dd5410bc416c24a0 ]


Sasha, this patch is breaking the build of perf in the stable branches.
Can you fix it up, or drop it?

thanks,

greg k-h