Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: cleanup the page tracking SRCU instance

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Tue Mar 28 2017 - 05:17:29 EST




On 28/03/2017 11:13, Greg KH wrote:
>> Suggested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Fixes: 0eb05bf290cfe8610d9680b49abef37febd1c38a
>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> A stable patch with no changelog text at all? That's not ok, please
> provide some information at the least to justify this patch for Linus's
> tree, and especially for a reason to be backported to a stable kernel...

The reason I had no changelog text is that the bug is brown-paper-worthy
and I thought the patch was pretty self-commenting. But I will fix
before pushing and also add Reported-by in addition to Suggested-by.

Paolo