Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/74] 4.4.5-stable review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat Mar 12 2016 - 22:48:07 EST


On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 05:15:13PM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 10:12:13AM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> >> Hi Greg,
> >>
> >> I tested with my usual setup/config.
> >>
> >> Looks good so far.
> >>
> >> Missing some net-ppp-fixes / overlayfs-fixes / userfaultfd-fixes, but
> >> I guess you will pick them up in a 6th run of Linux v4.4.y.
> >
> > I have no idea what these "fixes" are you speak of, my queue is empty,
> > there are no known stable patches I haven't applied yet. What exactly
> > are you referring to here?
> >
> > thansk,
> >
> >
>
> Here we go...
>
> [1] "userfaultfd: don't block on the last VM updates at exit time"
>
> [2] "ppp: release rtnl mutex when interface creation fails"
>
> ( I was involved in... Fixes: 58a89ecaca53 ("ppp: fix lockdep splat in
> ppp_dev_uninit()" )
>
> [3] "ovl: fix working on distributed fs as lower layer"
>
> BTW, in [1] Linus forgot to add a "CC:stable", how is this handled
> when a maintainer forgets this?

Someone needs to tell me. I've grabbed it now, the networking one will
come through David, and the ovl patch is already in my tree for this
round of releases. I couldn't take it before as it wasn't in Linus's
tree.

thanks,

greg k-h