From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755136AbdJIQdL (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2017 12:33:11 -0400 Received: from mail-qt0-f170.google.com ([209.85.216.170]:57005 "EHLO mail-qt0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754657AbdJIQdJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2017 12:33:09 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QBc74lyCJrVVx5jNruIozQm5y3mV0UOZx3zKltr1dlizE7ExFAProXehAi03EjSaJdu8UElPw== Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 086/104] arm64: kasan: avoid bad virt_to_pfn() To: "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" , Mark Rutland Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon References: <20171006083840.743659740@linuxfoundation.org> <20171006083853.610785662@linuxfoundation.org> <20171006181322.GA19635@leverpostej> <20171007031004.jq322f76fv3do4of@sasha-lappy> From: Laura Abbott Message-ID: <9766830d-c9cc-7f32-9233-d21da37736b4@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 09:33:01 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171007031004.jq322f76fv3do4of@sasha-lappy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/06/2017 08:10 PM, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 07:13:22PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: >> Hi Greg, >> >> On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 10:52:04AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. >> >> I'm a little confused as to why this is being backported, given it >> wasn't Cc'd stable or marked as a fix. >> >> The lm_alias() helper was only introduced in v4.10, and I don't recall >> seeing that backported. >> >> What's going on here? > > Mark, > > We are experimenting with using neural network to aid with patch > selection for stable kernel trees. There are quite a few commits that > were not marked for stable, but are stable material, and we're trying > to get them into their appropriate kernel trees. > Apart from the practical which has been covered, I'd be interested in hearing about the details of how this works if you can share them. Thanks, Laura