Re: [PATCH 6.1 00/13] 6.1.38-rc2 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2023 at 07:23:30AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 7/4/23 01:48, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.38 release.
> > There are 13 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> > 
> > Responses should be made by Thu, 06 Jul 2023 08:46:01 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > 	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.1.38-rc2.gz
> > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.1.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > 
> > -------------
> > Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
> > 
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >      Linux 6.1.38-rc2
> > 
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >      gup: avoid stack expansion warning for known-good case
> > 
> 
> I am a bit puzzled by this patch. It avoids a warning introduced with
> upstream commit a425ac5365f6 ("gup: add warning if some caller would
> seem to want stack expansion"), or at least it says so, but that patch
> is not in v6.1.y. Why is this patch needed here ?

It isn't, and was dropped for -rc2, right?

thanks,

greg k-h