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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2023 at 09:13:58AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 7/5/23 09:06, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> The above is from the -rc2 log so, no, it was not dropped. I checked in the
> repository to be sure. It is also in v6.3.12-rc2 and v6.4.2-rc2, but there
> it makes sense because a425ac5365f6 was applied/backported to those branches.

Ah, I must have dropped it right after the -rc2 announcement, it's been
a long week already:
	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/commit/?id=a5847f7c495fdc9c0a7b63703237f2891a6b6ed1

but be sure, it's gone from all branches now.

thanks,

greg k-h