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From:   Karol Herbst <kherbst@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 9 Aug 2023 20:28:59 +0200
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To:     Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>
Cc:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
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On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 4:04=E2=80=AFPM Thorsten Leemhuis
<regressions@leemhuis.info> wrote:
>
> On 09.08.23 15:13, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >
> > If this can't be fixed quickly, I suppose it's safer to revert it from
> > 6.4.y for now.  6.5 is still being cooked, but 6.4.x is already in
> > wide deployment, hence the regression has to be addressed quickly.
>

feel free to send reverts to mainline and add my r-by tage to it and I
can push those changes up. Sadly those patches fixed another
use-after-free, but it seems like we have to take another shot unless
somebody does have time to look into it promptly.

> Good luck with that. To quote
> https://docs.kernel.org/process/handling-regressions.html :
>
> ```
> Regarding stable and longterm kernels:
>
> [...]
>
> * Whenever you want to swiftly resolve a regression that recently also
> made it into a proper mainline, stable, or longterm release, fix it
> quickly in mainline; when appropriate thus involve Linus to fast-track
> the fix (see above). That's because the stable team normally does
> neither revert nor fix any changes that cause the same problems in mainli=
ne.
> ```
>
> Note the "normally" in there, so there is a chance.
>
> Ciao, Thorsten
>