Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] common/gnttab: Introduce command line feature controls

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 25.08.17 at 20:43, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At the moment, all of our downstreams which followed the embargoed
> advise will be using these command line options to mitigate the
> vulnerability.  The fact that this patch wasn't committed to the stable
> trees is bad, because it will cause our downstreams to regress move to a
> newer version of Xen and the command line options they set up no longer
> have any effect.

No-one should ever re-base onto a new major or stable version by
dropping all locally carried patches.

Jan


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