On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:12:56 -0500 Waiman Long <long...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Yes, this patch should go to stable. I think the stable tree maintainers > will automatically pick up patches with the "Fixes" tag. That is why I > don't explicitly put a "cc:stable" line in the patch. No. Both the Fixes: and the cc:stable are needed for the backport. Because sometimes we fix things but don't consider the fix important enough to risk the backport.