Re: [Xen-devel] XPTI patches for 4.10 don't apply

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 19.01.18 at 22:19, <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 02:52:50AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> On 19.01.18 at 08:21, <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Maybe this is a silly question but which tag are the 4.10 XPTI
>> > commits from https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa254/README.pti against?
>> > They don't apply to RELEASE-4.10.0.
>> 
>> As always with security fixes, they are against the tip of the
>> respective staging tree at the point they were being applied.
> 
> Ah, I thought it might be something like that.
> 
> I'm used to patches in XSAs being against a specific release. Will
> there be patches published against RELEASE-4.10.0

I know of no plans, and to be honest I think my earlier reply
already said exactly that.

> or is the
> expectation for people trying this to be using the tip of
> 4.10-staging?

There is no such expectation; people using a different baseline
simply may need to adjust the patches.

Jan


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