Re: [PATCH] kasan: update function name in comments

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 00:35:32 +0100 Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I thought that Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx controlled whether the patch
> > is to be taken to the stable kernel and Fixes: was more of an
> > informational tag. At least that's what this seems to say:
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#reviewer-s-statement-of-oversight
> 
> These days patches that just have a Fixes tag (and no Cc: stable) will
> be auto-picked in many (most?) cases (by empirical observation).
> 
> I think there were also tree-specific variances of this policy, but am
> not sure anymore. What is the latest policy?

The -stable maintainers have been asked not to do that for MM patches -
to only take those which the developers (usually I) have explicitly tagged
for backporting.

I don't know how rigorously this is being followed.  Probably OK for
patches to mm/* but if it's drivers/base/node.c then heaven knows.