Re: [PATCH 6.0 000/177] 6.0.18-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 03:34:15PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 03:27:58PM +0100, Georg Müller wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > Am 04.01.23 um 17:04 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.0.18 release.
> > > There are 177 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > let me know.
> > > 
> > > Responses should be made by Fri, 06 Jan 2023 16:04:29 +0000.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> > There is an easy-to-trigger kernel panic in cifs which was introduced in 6.0.16 and could be fixed by backporting the following commit:
> > 
> >    9ee2afe5207b ("cifs: prevent copying past input buffer boundaries")
> > 
> > Please see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216895 for the details
> > 
> > Could this commit be added as well to 6.0.18?
> 
> It is too late for this release, we can add it to the next one.  Or you
> can move to 6.1.y which you should be doing anyway as 6.0.y is about to
> go end-of-life in a few days.

Ah, it seems simple enough, I've queued it up now all the way back to
5.4.y, is that correct?

And any specific reason why this commit was NOT marked as a fix or for a
stable release?

thanks,

greg k-h