Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] kprobes: Make blacklist root user read only

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 03:40:09PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Since the blacklist file indicates a sensitive address
> information to reader, it should be restricted to the
> root user.
> 
> Suggested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/kprobes.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

</formletter>

If you want these to go to the stable tree(s), that is great, but please
mark them properly.  As you did it here for this series, it will not
work.

thanks,

greg k-h