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

[Laura Abbott]

On 10/06/2017 08:10 PM, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 07:13:22PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 10:52:04AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> 4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>>
>> I'm a little confused as to why this is being backported, given it
>> wasn't Cc'd stable or marked as a fix.
>>
>> The lm_alias() helper was only introduced in v4.10, and I don't recall
>> seeing that backported.
>>
>> What's going on here?
> 
> Mark,
> 
> We are experimenting with using neural network to aid with patch
> selection for stable kernel trees. There are quite a few commits that
> were not marked for stable, but are stable material, and we're trying
> to get them into their appropriate kernel trees.
> 

Apart from the practical which has been covered, I'd be interested
in hearing about the details of how this works if you can share
them.

Thanks,
Laura