Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 005/219] kretprobes: Ensure probe location is at function entry

Hi Sasha,

Sasha Levin wrote:

From: "Naveen N. Rao" naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com

[ Upstream commit 90ec5e89e393c76e19afc845d8f88a5dc8315919 ]

Sorry if this is obvious, but why was this patch picked up for -stable? I don't see the upstream commit tagging -stable, so curious why this was done.

I don't think this patch should be pushed to -stable since this is not really a bug fix. There are also other dependencies for this change (see commit a64e3f35a45f4a, for instance), including how userspace (perf) builds out the retprobe argument. As such, please drop this from -stable (for 3.18. 4.4 and 4.9).

Thanks, Naveen