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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4.12 26/84] x86/xen/efi: Initialize only the EFI struct members used by Xen



On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 11:16:39AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:39:10AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hey Greg,
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:43:32AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > 4.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me 
> > > > know.
> > >
> > > Why did you skip this patch for 4.11? IMO it should be applied there too.
> >
> > The thing is, this patch should probaly not even be in v4.12, as it should 
> > only
> > make any difference if there's a separate _bug_ in the kernel.
> >
> > This patch makes things more robust going forward, but I question that it 
> > needs to
> > be in -stable.
>
> Yeah, good point, I'm going to go drop it entirely from the 4.12-stable
> tree as it obviously isn't stable material, sorry for not catching that
> before.

Wait a minute. IIRC, Juergen told me last week that this patch fixes a bug
found/assigned by/to him. Juergen? If it is true then I would apply it to
stable. If I am wrong you can drop it.

Thanks,

Daniel

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