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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	Security Officers <security@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: stable-backporting the VM_PFNMAP TLB flushing fix (b67fbebd4cf9)
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:39:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wir0U3wydevpHUsHQyF_erDRY9t5Rtvh-mfikqG15XH+w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgrZB20D1mz55ohTWpv9zbik4TLJi+N_UMK_N+y3ofYWQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 10:38 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 10:36 AM Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > A minimal but also completely different fix would be:
>
> Looks sane to me.

Just to clarify: we've fixed things in stable backports differently
from the development kernel before - just make sure that the commit
message mentions what the devel fix was and why the stable fix is
different, and it's all good.

                 Linus

      reply	other threads:[~2022-08-29 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-29 17:35 stable-backporting the VM_PFNMAP TLB flushing fix (b67fbebd4cf9) Jann Horn
2022-08-29 17:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-08-29 17:39   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]

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