George Dunlap writes ("Re: [BUG] Error applying XSA240 update 5 on 4.8 and 4.9
(patch 3 references CONFIG_PV_LINEAR_PT, 3285e75dea89, x86/mm: Make PV linear
pagetables optional)"):
> These are two different things. Steve's reluctance to backport a
> potentially arbitrary number of non-security-related patches is
> completely reasonable.
I think the right thing to do is this:
If the patche(s) in an XSA require commits from staging-N which are
not contained in previous XSAs, the prerequisite commits should be
listed in the advisory.
That way someone who is following the XSAs (and by implication does
not want to take the other stuff from staging-N/stable-N or even our
point releases) will be able to take the minimum set necessary.
Ian.
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