Re: [PATCH 4.9 086/104] arm64: kasan: avoid bad virt_to_pfn()

[Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 04:47:46PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 02:00:53PM +0000, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) wrote:
>
>> In this case, for example, this patch had a "review cycle" of 18 days
>> where 4 different emails regarding this patch were sent out as it was
>> making it's way through review and queues, so we already try to be
>> as "loud" as we can with it.
>
>As someone on the reviewing side what I'm seeing is a bunch of stable
>maintainers sending fairly large patch serieses that look like normal
>stable review things.  That's not very loud.  I usually don't spend that
>much time on stable reviews as up until this started happening anything
>that went in was either something I'd pushed in directly or something
>where I had spent more time on already after someone had sent a "hey, we
>should backport this" mail.  Mails that look like the ones that have
>been sent are just confirming prior review.

Okay, so something like [REVIEW automatic-patch-selection for 4.X]
is sort of what you're suggesting?

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Thanks,
Sasha