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SubjectRe: [PATCH] hugetlbfs: fix hugetlb page migration/fault race causing SIGBUS
On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 08:46:33 +0200 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:

> > Maybe we should introduce the Fixes-no-stable: tag. That should get
> > their attention.
>
> No please, Fixes shouldn't be really tight to any stable tree rules. It
> is a very useful indication of which commit has introduced bug/problem
> or whatever that the patch follows up to. We in Suse are using this tag
> to evaluate potential fixes as the stable is not reliable. We could live
> with Fixes-no-stable or whatever other name but does it really makes
> sense to complicate the existing state when stable maintainers are doing
> whatever they want anyway? Does a tag like that force AI from selecting
> a patch? I am not really convinced.

It should work if we ask stable trees maintainers not to backport
such patches.

Sasha, please don't backport patches which are marked Fixes-no-stable:
and which lack a cc:stable tag.

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