Re: Patch "ppp: mppe: Revert "ppp: mppe: Add softdep to arc4"" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Re: Patch "ppp: mppe: Revert "ppp: mppe: Add softdep to arc4"" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[Eric Biggers]

On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 09:52:54AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     ppp: mppe: Revert "ppp: mppe: Add softdep to arc4"
> 
> to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
>     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> 
> The filename of the patch is:
>      ppp-mppe-revert-ppp-mppe-add-softdep-to-arc4.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

I already explained last time that this shouldn't be backported:
https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20190905161642.GA5659@google.com/

The commit message explains it too.

Is there something I could have done last time around to properly prevent this
from being backported, or do I have to continue to be ready to respond to these
emails which can come at arbitrary times forever?

> 
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.

Hard for "anyone else" to object to it when you didn't Cc any real mailing lists
(stable-commits doesn't count) and just sent this to me.  Lucky I saw this.

- Eric

Re: Patch "ppp: mppe: Revert "ppp: mppe: Add softdep to arc4"" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[Sasha Levin]

On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 10:11:05AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
>On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 09:52:54AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>>
>>     ppp: mppe: Revert "ppp: mppe: Add softdep to arc4"
>>
>> to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
>>     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
>>
>> The filename of the patch is:
>>      ppp-mppe-revert-ppp-mppe-add-softdep-to-arc4.patch
>> and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
>
>I already explained last time that this shouldn't be backported:
>https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20190905161642.GA5659@google.com/
>
>The commit message explains it too.
>
>Is there something I could have done last time around to properly prevent this
>from being backported, or do I have to continue to be ready to respond to these
>emails which can come at arbitrary times forever?

Appologies, I had to revert back to (older) backups for some of my data
and sadly forgot it can cause this type of issues. I'll drop the patch.

>> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
>> please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>
>Hard for "anyone else" to object to it when you didn't Cc any real mailing lists
>(stable-commits doesn't count) and just sent this to me.  Lucky I saw this.

This is just the "added to the queue" mail, you would see another mail
when this release goes to -rc1. No reason for too much spam...

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha

Re: Patch "ppp: mppe: Revert "ppp: mppe: Add softdep to arc4"" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[Eric Biggers]

On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 10:43:16PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > 
> > Hard for "anyone else" to object to it when you didn't Cc any real mailing lists
> > (stable-commits doesn't count) and just sent this to me.  Lucky I saw this.
> 
> This is just the "added to the queue" mail, you would see another mail
> when this release goes to -rc1. No reason for too much spam...
> 

So that second email would have gone to the real mailing lists that would need
to review this patch (linux-crypto and netdev)?  I don't think that's what
happens, hence my concern...

- Eric