Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:25:25 -0400 | From | "Michael S. Tsirkin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] virtio-balloon: Switch back to OOM handler for VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM |
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 08:13:19PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > > Should this have: > > > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.19+ > > I guess as nothing will actually "crash" it's not worth stable.
No - it's a regression, it would be a stable candidate from that POV. The issue is the patch size - stable rules say:
- It cannot be bigger than 100 lines, with context.
This is about 200 lines with context. In practice Fixes: is enough to make a bunch of downstreams pick it up.
-- MST
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