WTF: patch "[PATCH] ARC: export kmap" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.7-stable tree?

WTF: patch "[PATCH] ARC: export kmap" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.7-stable tree?

[gregkh]

The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.7-stable tree.

I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.

I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to 
<stable@vger.kernel.org> and let me know why this patch should be
applied.  Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be
seen again.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From d77976c414ed7f521b9c79b2a9dde0147a3cf754 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:34:46 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ARC: export kmap

|  MODPOST 7 modules
| ERROR: "kmap" [fs/ext2/ext2.ko] undefined!
| ../scripts/Makefile.modpost:91: recipe for target '__modpost' failed

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>

diff --git a/arch/arc/mm/highmem.c b/arch/arc/mm/highmem.c
index 04f83322c9fd..77ff64a874a1 100644
--- a/arch/arc/mm/highmem.c
+++ b/arch/arc/mm/highmem.c
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ void *kmap(struct page *page)
 
 	return kmap_high(page);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmap);
 
 void *kmap_atomic(struct page *page)
 {