Re: [PATCH 5.10 261/289] Revert "iommu/vt-d: Remove WO permissions on second-level paging entries"

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed May 26 2021 - 17:22:53 EST


On Mon 2021-05-17 16:03:06, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit c848416cc05afc1589edba04fe00b85c2f797ee3 which is
> eea53c5816889ee8b64544fa2e9311a81184ff9c upstream.

Please don't do this.

You are "creative" with marking upstream commits, which breaks
scripting, again. How

> Another iommu patch was backported incorrectly, causing problems, so
> drop this as well for the moment.
>
> Reported-by: Wolfgang Müller <wolf@oriole.systems>
> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Simply put it into the sign-off area, where it belongs. People will
happily update the scripts as it will be the last breakage.

Thanks,

Pavel
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