From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 727DEC4320A for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2021 08:52:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5549661100 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2021 08:52:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234163AbhHSIxC (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2021 04:53:02 -0400 Received: from wtarreau.pck.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:36367 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229954AbhHSIxB (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2021 04:53:01 -0400 Received: (from willy@localhost) by pcw.home.local (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id 17J8qETA009339; Thu, 19 Aug 2021 10:52:14 +0200 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 10:52:14 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Pavel Machek Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Theodore Ts'o" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, jason@jlekstrand.net, Jonathan Gray Subject: Re: Determining corresponding mainline patch for stable patches Re: [PATCH 5.10 125/135] drm/i915: avoid uninitialised var in eb_parse() Message-ID: <20210819085214.GC8538@1wt.eu> References: <20210811122702.GA8045@duo.ucw.cz> <20210813093104.GA20799@duo.ucw.cz> <20210813095429.GA21912@1wt.eu> <20210813102429.GA28610@duo.ucw.cz> <20210813111953.GB21912@1wt.eu> <20210819082242.GA13181@duo.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210819082242.GA13181@duo.ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Pavel, On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 10:22:42AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > I agree that submitters would need to know about the tag; OTOH I > believe that if it looked like a tag, people would be more likely to > get it right. We moved from "mention what this fixes in body" to > "Fixes: " and I believe that was an improvement. > > Anyway, three new entries in stable queues have format I have not seen > before: > > |ec547f971 None .: 4.19| KVM: nSVM: always intercept VMLOAD/VMSAVE when nested (CVE-2021-3656) > |dbfcc0f75 None o: 4.19| KVM: nSVM: avoid picking up unsupported bits from L2 in int_ctl (CVE-2021-3653) > |b79b08940 None o: 4.4| KVM: nSVM: avoid picking up unsupported bits from L2 in int_ctl (CVE-2021-3653) I can't find these commits. > [ upstream commit 0f923e07124df069ba68d8bb12324398f4b6b709 ] I've seen them a few times, mostly in the bpf subsystem or in net components whose backports were provided later by the original patch authors (or users) trying to use the same format and using a different case on "upstream". > I guess I'll simply update the script. That's clearly how it ought to be done. Again, I don't remember having faced issues during 2.6.32/3.10 in the past using the trivial script I shared and which used to ignore the case, so I don't see any particular difficulty there :-/ Cheers, Willy