Re: Patch "livepatch: Initialize shadow variables safely by a custom callback" has been added to the 4.16-stable tree

On Sun, 17 Jun 2018, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

livepatch: Initialize shadow variables safely by a custom callback

to the 4.16-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: livepatch-initialize-shadow-variables-safely-by-a-custom-callback.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.16 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

Hi,

I think the patch really should not be added to the stable tree. It is not a bug fix. It is a new feature. The original API was more limited and this patch extends it.

The same applies to patch "livepatch: Allow to call a custom callback when freeing shadow variables".

Regards, Miroslav