Re: [PATCH 4.12 26/84] x86/xen/efi: Initialize only the EFI struct members used by Xen

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jul 20 2017 - 05:16:21 EST



* Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.

The thing is, this patch should probaly not even be in v4.12, as it should only
make any difference if there's a separate _bug_ in the kernel.

This patch makes things more robust going forward, but I question that it needs to
be in -stable.

Thanks,

Ingo