Re: [PATCH 5.4.y 0/3] Backport series: "permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared mappings"

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 05:58:05PM -0700, Isaac J. Manjarres wrote:
> Lorenzo's series [2] fixed that issue and was merged in kernel version
> 6.7, but was not backported to older kernels. So, this issue is still
> present on kernels 5.4, 5.10, 5.15, 6.1, and 6.6.
> 
> This series backports Lorenzo's series to the 5.4 kernel.

That's not how this works.  First you do 6.6, then 6.1, then 5.15 ...

Otherwise somebody might upgrade from 5.4 to 6.1 and see a regression.