On 01.04.2022 15:46, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 12:16:00PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: >> All, >> >> while 4.14's general support period ended in January, we're considering >> to cut an out-of-band release due to the relatively large number of >> security relevant backports which has accumulated in just 2 months. By >> doing this we would _not_ be promising to do so again in the future. >> Please voice objections to the plan (or support for it) in the next >> couple of days. >> >> Since it's a little easier to "batch" releases, I would intend to keep >> 4.14.5 aligned with 4.16.1. >> >> Commits I have queued but not committed to the branch yet (and I won't >> until in a couple of days time, to allow for objections to the plan to >> be raised): >> >> dd6c062a7a4a tools/libxl: Correctly align the ACPI tables >> aa390d513a67 build: fix exported variable name CFLAGS_stack_boundary >> e62cc29f9b6c tools/libs: Fix build dependencies >> eddf13b5e940 x86emul: fix VPBLENDMW with mask and memory operand >> 6bd1b4d35c05 x86/console: process softirqs between warning prints >> 07449ecfa425 tools/libxl: don't allow IOMMU usage with PoD >> 10454f381f91 xz: avoid overlapping memcpy() with invalid input with in-place >> decompression >> 0a21660515c2 xz: validate the value before assigning it to an enum variable >> b4f211606011 vpci/msix: fix PBA accesses >> >> Please point out backports you find missing from both the respective >> staging branch and the list above, but which you consider relevant. > > I'm not sure if "just" bugfix qualify for 4.14 at this point, but if so, > I'd propose: > 0a20a53df158 tools/libs/light: set video_mem for PVH guests > > In any case, the above should be backported to 4.15 and 4.16.
Hmm, Anthony, I'd like to ask for your view here: This looks more like a cosmetic change to me at the first glance. Plus it's a little odd to see it being proposed for backporting now, when it's already almost 4 months old and hence could have gone into 4.15.2 and 4.14.4 if it was important. Jan
