Re: [PATCH 6.3 00/13] 6.3.12-rc1 review

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 04.07.23 10:47, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 02:13:03PM +0530, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote:
>> On 04/07/23 1:54 pm, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>>>> While running LTP hugetlb testing on x86 the following kernel BUG noticed
>>>>> on running stable-rc 6.3.12-rc1.
>>
>> Have you looked at Patch 9 of this series:
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/stable/2023070416-wow-phrasing-b92c@gregkh/T/#m12068530e846ac8b9668bd83941d82ec3f22ac15
>>
>> Looks very much related, it also has a note on Backporting.
>> As I think it could be related, I am sharing this.(But haven't tested
>> anything)
> 
> Yes, that's the offending patch.  I should have read over the full
> changelogs before doing bisection, but bisection/test proved that this
> was not correct for 6.3.y at this point in time.

FWIW, I'm preparing a few small tweaks for
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst (to be submitted after the
merge window). I among others consider adding something like this that
might help avoiding this situation:

```
To delay pick up of patches submitted via :ref:`option_1`, use the
following format:

.. code-block:: none

     Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # after 4 weeks in mainline

For any other requests related to patches submitted via :ref:`option_1`,
just add a note to the stable tag. This for example can be used to point
out known problems:

.. code-block:: none

     Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # see patch description, needs
adjustments for 6.3 and earlier

```

Greg, if this is stupid or in case you want it to say something else,
just say so.

Ciao, Thorsten