Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/533] 6.1.165-rc2 review

[Sasha Levin]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2026 at 06:57:53PM +0100, Peter Schneider wrote:
> Am 02.03.2026 um 18:48 schrieb Sasha Levin:
> [...]
>
> > I'll drop it and push the -rc2 branch again for all affected kernels.
>
> Wouldn't it better to push a -rc3 branch then, so as to not create confusion? (I'm confused now... 🤔🙄)
>
> Or did you actually mean rc3?
>
> Also, the causing patch ("x86/kexec: add a sanity check on previous 
> kernel's ima kexec buffer") is in all others 6.x.y -rc2s from today, 
> so maybe Harshit should quickly check to which 6.x.y stable branches 
> this patch was meant to be backported/included?

I just force pushed a new -rc2, and dropped the offending patch from all
branches for now.

This one will end up being a slightly bigger release, and we can revisit this
commit and any others we had to drop for the next cycle.

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Thanks,
Sasha