On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 03:07:03PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 11:52:33 -0700 > Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > > > <formletter> > > > > This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the > > stable kernel tree. Please read: > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html > > for how to do this properly. > > > > </formletter> > > Hi Greg, > > This isn't a patch submission. It's more of a question if something should > be backported because it happens to fix a long standing issue.
Sorry, that wasn't obvious to me. > It appears that the ftrace mcount sorttable code was broken if you built a > 64 bit kernel on a 32 bit machine. I'm guessing it was broken since 5.17? > A recent update to this code coincidentally fixes that issue. That update > landed in 6.14. The question is, is it fine to backport the changes that > fix this? It may not be totally trivial to do so, but I could likely just > backport the changes that address this issue. It's up to the maintainer of the subsytem as to what they wish to see happen. I will always defer to them as they are the ones that have to deal with emails from users :) thanks, greg k-h
