Re: Question: Why don't I see FAILED patch notifications for commit: 622ebfac01ba4f9c0

Harshit Mogalapalli <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Greg,

> On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 10:36:25PM +0530, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote:
>> Hi stable maintainers,
>> 
>> I am curious to know why I can't see FAILED patch emails for:
>> 
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=622ebfac01ba4f9c0060cebd41257fe46fc4a0b3
> 
> Why would you?
> 
>> the broken commit is in all stable trees:
>> 
>> Commit Data:
>>   rev              : 355f4fb1405ec29d0fac49b4d41fcd78cbd455d5
>>   subject          : kvm: nVMX: VMCLEAR an active shadow VMCS after last use
>>   stable patch-id  : 67a5f1f0e5c07f4d579e84e2028f04fa5d0a393c
>> 
>> In Branches:
>>   mainline             : v4.9-rc4 - 355f4fb1405e kvm: nVMX: VMCLEAR an
>> active shadow VMCS after last use
>> 
>> and the fix has a CC: stable in it.
>> 
>> So I am wondering why FAILED patch notifications are not seen on
>> [email protected].
>> 
>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=KVM%3A+nVMX%3A+Hide+shadow+VMCS+right+after+VMCLEAR
> 
> Because it is in a bunch of released kernels already:
> 	6.6.148 6.12.101 6.18.42 7.1.6
> And queued up for the next 6.1, 5.15, and 5.10 releases, it's in the
> queue.
> 

Very sorry about this.

I made two mistakes here:
1. I should have specified I was looking for 5.10.y and 5.15.y, 6.1.y
2. I should have checked stable-queues.

Source of my confusion was it got applied to 6.6.y+ kernels on August 
03, 2026. And we had a stable kernel release for 5.15.y -> 5.15.214 on 
August 06, 2026. But I just realized that we can have few urgent fixes 
queued up and released faster.

thanks a lot for explaining. Will be cautious next time.

regards,
Harshit


> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
>
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