Re: [PATCH v5.10 0/2] Fix for CVE-2024-36901

On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 03:16:15PM +0530, Ashwin Kamat wrote:

Hi Greg,
The patches get applied to 5.10 stable branch with an offset [i.e Hunk #1
succeeded at 240 (offset 19 lines).]
To avoid that I sent separate patches to 5.10 and 5.15. Apart from that
there is no other difference.

That's not what I asked, I asked:

quoted

Any reason you didn't actually cc: the stable@vger.kernel.org address
for these so we know to pick them up?

That is a requirement to get a patch merged into a stable release,
right?

thanks,

greg k-h